The Poetry Reader
Books & Literature
The Poetry Reader is a podcast devoted to sharing the beauty of poetry. I present selected works from a different poet each month. You can also find me at www.facebook.com/serafinibooks where I have wonderful books available for purchase!
Location:
United States
Genres:
Books & Literature
Description:
The Poetry Reader is a podcast devoted to sharing the beauty of poetry. I present selected works from a different poet each month. You can also find me at www.facebook.com/serafinibooks where I have wonderful books available for purchase!
Language:
English
Website:
https://www.johnserafini.ca
Episodes
57. William Wordsworth's "Glad sight wherever new with old"
10/27/2022
At eight lines, this is one of Wordsworth’s shortest poems.
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Duration:00:01:23
56. William Wordsworth's "Composed at Cora Linn in Sight of Wallace’s Tower"
10/26/2022
This poem was likely written in 1814 during Wordsworth’s trip to Scotland with his wife and sister-in-law.
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Duration:00:03:36
55. William Wordsworth's "Ode: Intimations of Immortality"
10/24/2022
This irregular Pindaric ode was published in 1807. It employs three movements to consider death, loss of the sense of the divine, and hope that memory of the same will make men more sympathetic.
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Duration:00:12:28
54. William Wordsworth's “To Thomas Clarkson. On the Final Passing of the Bill for the Abolition of the Slave Trade. March, 1807”
10/24/2022
The subject of this poem, Thomas Clarkson, devoted his life from 1785 until 1807 and beyond in his quest to abolish slavery in the British Empire and around the world.
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Duration:00:02:20
53. William Wordsworth's “Tribute to the Memory of the Same Dog”
10/22/2022
Like “Incident characteristic of a Favourite Dog, which belonged to a Friend of the Author,” this poem was also published in 1807.
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Duration:00:03:36
52. William Wordsworth's “Incident, Characteristic of a favourite Dog, which belonged to a Friend of the Author”
10/22/2022
This poem was entitled “Incident characteristic of a Favourite Dog” prior to its publication in 1807, where it received the lengthened title that it maintains today.
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Duration:00:03:26
51. William Wordsworth's “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”
10/20/2022
Originally composed in 1804, this poem was revised and then finally published in 1815. It ties together themes of memory, imagination, and nature.
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Duration:00:02:04
50. William Wordsworth's "To a Highland Girl"
10/19/2022
This poem was composed shortly after William Wordsworth toured Scotland in 1803.
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Duration:00:05:12
49. William Wordsworth's "The Solitary Reaper"
10/18/2022
From its ballad form to its focus on closeness with nature and its emphasis on deep human emotion, this 1803 work is a quintessential Romantic era poem.
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Duration:00:02:40
48. William Wordsworth's "Rob Roy’s Grave"
10/18/2022
Wordsworth wrote this poem during an 1803 tour of Scotland. It pays homage to Rob Roy, the outlaw and folk hero of Scotland who died in 1734.
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Duration:00:07:11
47. William Wordsworth's "There is a bondage which is worse to bear"
10/17/2022
Published in 1807, this poem contrasts outward restrictions on freedom with the self-imposed shackles on liberty and goodness that people so often embrace.
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Duration:00:02:05
46. William Wordsworth's "London, 1802"
10/15/2022
In this sonnet, Wordsworth laments the moral state of England and lifts up John Milton, the seventeenth century poet, as a shining exemplar for his countrymen.
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Duration:00:02:03
45. William Wordsworth's "Near Dover, September 1802"
10/14/2022
Wordsworth wrote this and a number of other poems in 1802 during the Peace of Amiens. He was able to see his nine-year-old daughter in France for the first time due to the travel allowed by the brief pause in hostilities.
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Duration:00:02:06
44. William Wordsworth's "The World Is Too Much with Us"
10/14/2022
This Petrarchan sonnet was published in 1807. It highlights Wordsworth’s concerns regarding humanity cutting itself off from nature and becoming disconnected from itself as well as a result.
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Duration:00:02:05
43. William Wordsworth's ""Beloved Vale!" I said, "when I shall con""
10/12/2022
This poem compares the anticipated and the experienced realities of recollecting memories from youth.
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Duration:00:02:03
42. William Wordsworth's "Composed upon Westminster Bridge, Sept. 3, 1802"
10/12/2022
While the original manuscript submitted by Wordsworth to his publisher lists the date in the title as “Sept. 3, 1803,” he edited this date of publication in 1838 to the correct year of 1802. The poem is a Petrarchan sonnet written in loose iambic pentameter.
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Duration:00:02:22
41. William Wordsworth's "From the Same. To The Supreme Being."
10/11/2022
The “From the Same” in the title of this poem references the name of his earlier poem, “From the Italian of Michel Angelo,” and is one of his miscellaneous sonnets.
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Duration:00:02:04
40. William Wordsworth's "To Sleep"
10/9/2022
This work is one of at least three poems by William Wordsworth with this title. It is a part of his miscellaneous sonnets.
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Duration:00:01:56
39. William Wordsworth's "Ode to Duty"
10/9/2022
This work speaks to the freedom and peace found in duties freely accepted.
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Duration:00:05:05
38. William Wordsworth's "Character of the Happy Warrior"
10/7/2022
This poem was written in 1806 after the death of Lord Nelson, the British hero of the Napoleonic Wars. It is written in English heroic couplets.
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Duration:00:07:06