The Well Read Poem
A podcast by Thomas Banks - Mondays
108 Episodes
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S18E6: "A Prayer for My Daughter" by William Butler Yeats
Published: 2/10/2025 -
S18E5: "To My Brothers" by John Keats
Published: 2/3/2025 -
S18E4: "Satire 6, Book 1" by Horace (trans. by John Conington)
Published: 1/27/2025 -
S18E3: "To My Mother" by Robert Louis Stevenson
Published: 1/20/2025 -
S18E2: "Forefathers" by Edmund Blunden
Published: 1/13/2025 -
S18E1: "My Sister's Sleep" by Dante Rosetti
Published: 1/6/2025 -
S17E6: "The Dissolution of the Monasteries" by William Wordsworth
Published: 10/7/2024 -
S17E5: "Poem of a Proposition of Nakedness" by Walt Whitman
Published: 9/30/2024 -
S17E4: "To a Republican Friend" by Matthew Arnold
Published: 9/23/2024 -
S17E3: "Sonnet 11: On the Desecration Which Followed My Writing Certain Treatises" by John Milton
Published: 9/16/2024 -
S17E2: "The Death of King Charles II" by John Dryden
Published: 9/9/2024 -
S17E1: "On the Jubilee of Queen Victoria" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Published: 9/2/2024 -
S16E6: "Summer" by Christina Rossetti
Published: 7/8/2024 -
S16E5: "On the Move" by Thom Gunn
Published: 7/1/2024 -
S16E4: "Adlestrop" by Edward Thomas
Published: 6/24/2024 -
S16E3: "July, 1964" by Donald Davie
Published: 6/17/2024 -
S16E2: "The Lonely Hunter" by William Sharp
Published: 6/10/2024 -
S16E1: "Summer Sun" by Robert Louis Stevenson
Published: 6/3/2024 -
S15E6: “Happy the Man, Who, Like Ulysses” by Joachim du Bellay trans. by Richard Wilbur
Published: 3/18/2024 -
S15E5: “Ask Not (Odes I.11)” by Horace (trans. by John Conington)
Published: 3/11/2024
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.