Close Readings

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101 Episodes

  1. Medieval Beginnings: Bede's Life of Cuthbert

    Published: 3/03/2023
  2. The Long and Short: Walt Whitman's 'Song of Myself'

    Published: 24/02/2023
  3. Among the Ancients: The 'Odyssey'

    Published: 14/02/2023
  4. Medieval Beginnings: Letters and Laments

    Published: 3/02/2023
  5. The Long and Short: Tennyson's 'Maud'

    Published: 24/01/2023
  6. Among the Ancients: The 'Iliad'

    Published: 14/01/2023
  7. Medieval Beginnings: Beowulf

    Published: 4/01/2023
  8. Modern-ish Poets Live! T. S. Eliot

    Published: 10/12/2022
  9. Modern-ish Poets Series 2: Frank O'Hara and John Ashbery

    Published: 9/12/2022
  10. Modern-ish Poets Series 2: Charlotte Mew

    Published: 8/12/2022
  11. Modern-ish Poets Series 2: W. B. Yeats

    Published: 7/12/2022
  12. Modern-ish Poets Series 2: Emily Dickinson

    Published: 6/12/2022
  13. Modern-ish Poets Series 2: Derek Walcott

    Published: 5/12/2022
  14. Modern-ish Poets Series 2: Louis MacNeice

    Published: 4/12/2022
  15. Modern-ish Poets Series 2: Adrienne Rich

    Published: 3/12/2022
  16. Modern-ish Poets Series 2: Robert Frost

    Published: 2/12/2022
  17. Modern-ish Poets Series 2: Gerard Manley Hopkins

    Published: 1/12/2022
  18. Encounters with Medieval Women: Margery Kempe

    Published: 4/11/2022
  19. Encounters with Medieval Women: The Wife of Bath

    Published: 3/11/2022
  20. Encounters with Medieval Women: Julian of Norwich

    Published: 2/11/2022

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Close Readings is a new multi-series podcast subscription from the London Review of Books. Two contributors explore areas of literature through a selection of key works, providing an introductory grounding like no other. Listen to some episodes for free here, and extracts from our ongoing subscriber-only series.How To SubscribeIn Apple Podcasts, click 'subscribe' at the top of this podcast feed to unlock the full episodes.Or for other podcast apps, sign up here: https://lrb.me/closereadingsRunning in 2024:On Satire with Clare Bucknell and Colin BurrowHuman Conditions with Adam Shatz, Judith Butler, Pankaj Mishra and Brent Hayes EdwardsAmong the Ancients II with Emily Wilson and Thomas JonesPolitical Poems with Seamus Perry and Mark FordMedieval LOLs with Irina Dumitrescu and Mary WellesleyPLUS: More series starting in 2025...Get in touch: [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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