Here is one more war poem from WWI, this one by another soldier poet, Wilfred Owen. Beside...
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The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
Let us leave the Modernists for a moment, for a trip to an imaginary land, a locus amoenus, a...
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The Nymphs Reply to the Shepherd
There’s a long tradition of “the answer record” in pop music, where another artist responds to a...
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We seem to be in a month of sky omens in the Midwest, with the Perseids meteor shower and a solar...
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I return today to the work of pioneering English modernist poet T. E. Hulme, he of the entire...
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I was talking with my wife this weekend. She’s reading a memoir about current military...
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A while back here there were several episodes where we discussed songwriters as literary figures,...
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Today’s audio piece is another by Christina Rossetti, connected through family with the Victorian...
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Today was the Autumn Equinox, which some use to mark the beginning Fall. Where I live it was very...
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100 years ago, a WWI German artillery shell ended the life of T. E. Hulme, the man sparked off...
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In 1899, as the 19th Century was leaving in Victorian London, a 13-year-old boy from a large poor...
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It’s been too long since we featured one of the looser live performances of the LYL Band here at...
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Today’s piece is our first proper piece by English poet Thomas Hardy. In America Hardy may be...
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For reasons of copyrights, I’ve been focusing a fair amount here on using words from the most...
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Love Song for a Woman I Do Not Love
One joy of this project’s exploration has been coming upon poets I know nothing about and...
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Tomorrow is Christmas, a holiday that in the English-speaking world owes a lot to the English...
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Idiom of the Week - Hit It Big and Make It Big
James discusses the Idiom of the Week - its meanings and how they are used. In this week's...
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Episode 2 - How Celebrities Learned English
James tells the story of how Celine Dion, at the age of 15, learned English to become one of the...
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James discusses the meaning and the orgin of the Idiom "a fish out of water".
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The James Rice Show: Episode 1
The first episode ever of the James Rice show. In this episode, James will discuss the goals of...
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