108 Episodes

  1. S18E6: "A Prayer for My Daughter" by William Butler Yeats

    Published: 2/10/2025
  2. S18E5: "To My Brothers" by John Keats

    Published: 2/3/2025
  3. S18E4: "Satire 6, Book 1" by Horace (trans. by John Conington)

    Published: 1/27/2025
  4. S18E3: "To My Mother" by Robert Louis Stevenson

    Published: 1/20/2025
  5. S18E2: "Forefathers" by Edmund Blunden

    Published: 1/13/2025
  6. S18E1: "My Sister's Sleep" by Dante Rosetti

    Published: 1/6/2025
  7. S17E6: "The Dissolution of the Monasteries" by William Wordsworth

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

    Published: 9/30/2024
  9. S17E4: "To a Republican Friend" by Matthew Arnold

    Published: 9/23/2024
  10. S17E3: "Sonnet 11: On the Desecration Which Followed My Writing Certain Treatises" by John Milton

    Published: 9/16/2024
  11. S17E2: "The Death of King Charles II" by John Dryden

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

    Published: 9/2/2024
  13. S16E6: "Summer" by Christina Rossetti

    Published: 7/8/2024
  14. S16E5: "On the Move" by Thom Gunn

    Published: 7/1/2024
  15. S16E4: "Adlestrop" by Edward Thomas

    Published: 6/24/2024
  16. S16E3: "July, 1964" by Donald Davie

    Published: 6/17/2024
  17. S16E2: "The Lonely Hunter" by William Sharp

    Published: 6/10/2024
  18. S16E1: "Summer Sun" by Robert Louis Stevenson

    Published: 6/3/2024
  19. S15E6: “Happy the Man, Who, Like Ulysses” by Joachim du Bellay trans. by Richard Wilbur

    Published: 3/18/2024
  20. S15E5: “Ask Not (Odes I.11)” by Horace (trans. by John Conington)

    Published: 3/11/2024

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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.