The Well Read Poem
A podcast by Thomas Banks - Mondays
108 Episodes
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S8E6: "Ode to a Nightingale" by John Keats
Published: 4/25/2022 -
S8E5: "Old Adam, the Carrion Crow" by Thomas Beddoes
Published: 4/18/2022 -
S8E4: "Le Corbeau et le Renard (The Crow and the Fox)" by Jean de la Fontaine
Published: 4/11/2022 -
S8E3: "The Oven Bird" by Robert Frost
Published: 4/4/2022 -
S8E2: "The Eagle" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Published: 3/28/2022 -
S8E1: "Les Hiboux (The Owls)" by Charles Baudelaire
Published: 3/21/2022 -
S7E6: "Love Poem" by John Frederick Nims
Published: 2/14/2022 -
S7E5: "O Tell Me the Truth About Love" by W. H. Auden
Published: 2/7/2022 -
S7E4: Remember Me by Christina Rossetti
Published: 1/31/2022 -
S7E3: "Mother, I cannot Mind my Wheel" by Walter Savage Landor
Published: 1/24/2022 -
S7E2: "Sonnet 130: My Mistress' Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun" by William Shakespeare
Published: 1/17/2022 -
S7E1: "A Farewell to Arms" by George Peele
Published: 1/10/2022 -
S6E6: "A Sonnet (Two Voices Are There)" By James Kenneth Stephenson
Published: 12/13/2021 -
S6E5: “A Satire Against Mankind” by John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester
Published: 12/6/2021 -
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 -
S6E3: "Zimri" from "Absalom and Achitophel" by John Dryden
Published: 11/22/2021 -
S6E2: "Atticus" by Alexander Pope
Published: 11/15/2021 -
S6E1: "On a General Election" by Hilaire Belloc
Published: 11/8/2021 -
S5E6: "Summer Evening" by Walter de la Mare
Published: 10/4/2021 -
S5E5: "Alexander" by Walter de la Mare
Published: 9/27/2021
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.