The Well Read Poem
A podcast by Thomas Banks - Mondays
112 Episodes
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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 -
S15E4: "I Do Not Like Thee, Doctor Fell" by Martial, trans. by Tom Brown
Published: 3/4/2024 -
S15E3: “The Cat” by Charles Baudelaire (trans. by Roy Campbell)
Published: 2/26/2024 -
S15E2: “Marsyas” by Jose-Maria de Heredia (trans. by Thomas Banks)
Published: 2/19/2024 -
S15E1: "On His Brother's Death" by Catullus (trans. by Aubrey Beardsley)
Published: 2/12/2024 -
S14E6: "Christmas" by John Betjeman
Published: 1/1/2024 -
S14E5: "Noël" by Théophile Gautier
Published: 12/25/2023 -
S14E4: "Good King Wenceslas" by Vaclav Svoboda, trans. by John Mason Neale
Published: 12/18/2023 -
S14E3: "Christmas Carol" by Sara Teasdale
Published: 12/11/2023 -
S14E2: "Mistletoe" by Walter de la Mare
Published: 12/4/2023 -
S14E1: "The Magi" by William Butler Yeats
Published: 11/27/2023 -
S13E6: “The English War” by Dorothy L. Sayers
Published: 9/18/2023 -
S13E5: "The Burial of Sir John Moore after Corunna" by Charles Wolfe
Published: 9/11/2023 -
S13E4: "Into Battle" by Julian Grenfell
Published: 9/4/2023 -
S13E3: “To Lucasta, on Going to the Wars” by Richard Lovelace
Published: 8/28/2023 -
S13E2: “To Pompeius” Ode 2.7 by Horace, trans. by John Davidson
Published: 8/21/2023 -
S13E1: "David's Lament for Saul and Jonathan", 2 Samuel 1, KJV
Published: 8/14/2023
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.