The Well Read Poem

A podcast by Thomas Banks - Mondays

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89 Episodes

  1. S9E1: "The Rhodora" by Ralph Waldo Emerson

    Published: 8/29/2022
  2. S8E6: "Ode to a Nightingale" by John Keats

    Published: 4/25/2022
  3. S8E5: "Old Adam, the Carrion Crow" by Thomas Beddoes

    Published: 4/18/2022
  4. S8E4: "Le Corbeau et le Renard (The Crow and the Fox)" by Jean de la Fontaine

    Published: 4/11/2022
  5. S8E3: "The Oven Bird" by Robert Frost

    Published: 4/4/2022
  6. S8E2: "The Eagle" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

    Published: 3/28/2022
  7. S8E1: "Les Hiboux (The Owls)" by Charles Baudelaire

    Published: 3/21/2022
  8. S7E6: "Love Poem" by John Frederick Nims

    Published: 2/14/2022
  9. S7E5: "O Tell Me the Truth About Love" by W. H. Auden

    Published: 2/7/2022
  10. S7E4: Remember Me by Christina Rossetti

    Published: 1/31/2022
  11. S7E3: "Mother, I cannot Mind my Wheel" by Walter Savage Landor

    Published: 1/24/2022
  12. S7E2: "Sonnet 130: My Mistress' Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun" by William Shakespeare

    Published: 1/17/2022
  13. S7E1: "A Farewell to Arms" by George Peele

    Published: 1/10/2022
  14. S6E6: "A Sonnet (Two Voices Are There)" By James Kenneth Stephenson

    Published: 12/13/2021
  15. S6E5: “A Satire Against Mankind” by John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester

    Published: 12/6/2021
  16. S6E4: “To a Poet, Who Would Have Me Praise Certain Bad Poets, Imitator of His and Mine” by William Butler Yeats

    Published: 11/29/2021
  17. S6E3: "Zimri" from "Absalom and Achitophel" by John Dryden

    Published: 11/22/2021
  18. S6E2: "Atticus" by Alexander Pope

    Published: 11/15/2021
  19. S6E1: "On a General Election" by Hilaire Belloc

    Published: 11/8/2021
  20. S5E6: "Summer Evening" by Walter de la Mare

    Published: 10/4/2021

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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.