114 Episodes

  1. S19E6: "Aubade" by Philip Larkin

    Published: 7/07/2025
  2. S19E5: "The Twa Corbies" Anonymous Scottish

    Published: 30/06/2025
  3. S19E4: "Ecclesiastes 12" from the King James Version

    Published: 23/06/2025
  4. S19E3: "Elegies 11.28" by Propertius (Translated by Constance Carrier)

    Published: 16/06/2025
  5. S19E2: "On a Dead Child" by Robert Bridges

    Published: 9/06/2025
  6. S19E1: "Epitaph on the Countess of Pembroke" by William Browne

    Published: 2/06/2025
  7. S18E6: "A Prayer for My Daughter" by William Butler Yeats

    Published: 10/02/2025
  8. S18E5: "To My Brothers" by John Keats

    Published: 3/02/2025
  9. S18E4: "Satire 6, Book 1" by Horace (trans. by John Conington)

    Published: 27/01/2025
  10. S18E3: "To My Mother" by Robert Louis Stevenson

    Published: 20/01/2025
  11. S18E2: "Forefathers" by Edmund Blunden

    Published: 13/01/2025
  12. S18E1: "My Sister's Sleep" by Dante Rosetti

    Published: 6/01/2025
  13. S17E6: "The Dissolution of the Monasteries" by William Wordsworth

    Published: 7/10/2024
  14. S17E5: "Poem of a Proposition of Nakedness" by Walt Whitman

    Published: 30/09/2024
  15. S17E4: "To a Republican Friend" by Matthew Arnold

    Published: 23/09/2024
  16. S17E3: "Sonnet 11: On the Desecration Which Followed My Writing Certain Treatises" by John Milton

    Published: 16/09/2024
  17. S17E2: "The Death of King Charles II" by John Dryden

    Published: 9/09/2024
  18. S17E1: "On the Jubilee of Queen Victoria" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

    Published: 2/09/2024
  19. S16E6: "Summer" by Christina Rossetti

    Published: 8/07/2024
  20. S16E5: "On the Move" by Thom Gunn

    Published: 1/07/2024

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Because reading is interpretation, The Well Read Poem aims to teach you how to read with understanding! Hosted by poet Thomas Banks of The House of Humane Letters, these short episodes will introduce you to both well-known and obscure poets and will focus on daily recitation, historical and intellectual background, elements of poetry, light explication, and more! Play this podcast daily and practice reciting! The next week, get a new poem. Grow in your understanding and love of poetry by learning how to read well! Brought to you by The Literary Life Podcast.

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