Critical Readings

CR Episode 143: Poetry In Memoriam Elizabeth II

The panel reads poetry celebrating the life and reign of Queen Elizabeth II, including Philip...

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CR Episode 141: Wordsworth’s Prelude, Book I

The panel reads the first book of William Wordsworth's "The Prelude", discussing the intention of...

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CR Episode 140: Ezra Pound’s Canto LXXIV

The panel attempts to read Canto LXXIV from The Cantos of Ezra Pound, but finds even this one...

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CR Episode 139: Idylls of the King, Part XII

The panel concludes the series on Idylls of the King with a full reading of "The Passing of...

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CR Episode 138: Idylls of the King, Part XI

The panel reads the penultimate idyll, "Guinevere", last of the original 1859 collection, and...

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CR Episode 137: Idylls of the King, Part X

The panel reads the second part of the story of Sir Pelleas, "The Last Tournament", with its...

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CR Episode 136: Idylls of the King, Part IX

The panel reads "Pelleas and Ettare" and questions whether Arthur overprotects Sir Pelleas,...

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CR Episode 135: Idylls of the King, Part VIII

The panel discusses the dispersal of the Round Table in "The Holy Grail", the conflict between...

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CR Episode 134: Idylls of the King, Part VII

Moving into the second half of the Idylls, the panel reads "Lancelot and Elaine", one of the most...

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CR Episode 133: Idylls of the King, Part VI

The panel reads the poem that serves as the hinge in the cycle of the Idylls, "Merlin and...

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CR Episode 132: Idylls of the King, Part V

The panel reads the last-composed of the Idylls, "Balin and Balan", with attention to the tale's...

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CR Episode 131: Idylls of the King, Part IV

The panel reads "Enid and Geraint", the second part of the Enid tale and the fourth of the...

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CR Episode 130: Idylls of the King, Part III

In this third part of the Idylls of the King, the panel reads "The Marriage of Geraint",...

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CR Episode 129: Idylls of the King, Part II

In the second Idylls of the King episode, the panel reads "Gareth and Lynette", with special...

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CR Episode 128: Idylls of the King, Part I

The panel begins a twelve-week series covering the entirety of Tennyson's Arthurian cycle, Idylls...

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CR Episode 127: The Waste Land, Part IV

The Waste Land series concludes with readings and analysis of the final two parts--"Death by...

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CR Episode 126: The Waste Land, Part III

In this third part of the four-part series on The Waste Land, by T. S. Eliot, the panel reads...

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CR Episode 125: The Waste Land, Part II

The panel continues with the second of a four-part series on The Waste Land, by T. S. Eliot,...

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CR Episode 124: The Waste Land, Part I

The panel embarks upon a four-week study of T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land, beginning with a...

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CR Episode 123: Henry Vaughan

The panel reads a selection of the poety of the seventeenth-century, Welsh, metaphysical poet,...

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