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History
Seamus Heaney, 3 Poems from “Squarings”
12 Mar 2025
Eavan Boland, “The Making of an Irish Goddess”
7 Mar 2025
An anonymous poem of incredible cynicism, from c. 1325
30 Jan 2025
“A Friar Complains” (anonymous poem from c. 1500)
23 Jan 2025
Shakespeare: “I stay too long by thee; I weary thee” (from Henry IV pt. 2)
16 Jan 2025
Shakespeare: “Are thou not sorry for these heinous deeds?”: 2 Speeches from “Titus Andronicus”
13 Jan 2025
John Milton: Eve and the Serpent from “Paradise Lost”
26 Dec 2024
Mark Akenside, from “The Pleasures of Imagination”
12 Dec 2024
John Keats, “Ode on a Grecian Urn”
7 Nov 2024
Thomas Hardy, “The Darkling Thrush”
27 Oct 2024
W. B. Yeats, “The Circus Animals’ Desertion”
23 Oct 2024
Edgar Lee Masters, “Editor Whedon”
3 Oct 2024
Robinson Jeffers, “New Mexican Mountain”
20 Sep 2024
Robert Lowell, “History”
1 Sep 2024
Gerald Stern, “The Dancing”
26 Aug 2024
Robert Pinsky, “The Figured Wheel”
16 Aug 2024
Philip Levine, from “Burned”
14 Aug 2024
Derek Walcott, “Sea Grapes”
8 Aug 2024
Seamus Heaney, 2 Bog Poems
1 Aug 2024
Chidiock Tichborne, “My prime of youth is but a froste of cares”
1 Jul 2024
John Milton, from “Paradise Lost”
13 Jun 2024
William Cullen Bryant, “The Prairies”
14 May 2024
Walt Whitman, “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry”
30 Apr 2024
Matthew Arnold, “Dover Beach”
29 Apr 2024
May Kendall, “The Lay of the Trilobite”
12 Apr 2024
Archibald MacLeish, “Voyage West”
8 Mar 2024
Kenneth Rexroth, “Spring, Coast Range”
9 Feb 2024
Stephen Spender, “I think continually of those who were truly great”
7 Feb 2024
Louis MacNeice, “Wolves”
4 Feb 2024
Vernon Watkins, “Peace in the Welsh Hills”
2 Feb 2024
James Agee, “So it begins. Adam is in his earth”
31 Jan 2024
Delmore Schwartz, “In the Naked Bed, in Plato’s Cave”
18 Jan 2024
Robert Lowell, “Bobby Delano”
15 Jan 2024
Karen Gershon, “I Was Not There”
9 Jan 2024
Denise Levertov, “A Map of the Western Part of the County of Essex in England”
8 Jan 2024
Philip Levine, “Among Children”
5 Jan 2024
Molly Holden, “Photograph of a Haymaker, 1890”
3 Jan 2024
George Theiner, “The Fly”
1 Jan 2024
Seamus Heaney, “Bogland”
21 Dec 2023
Derek Mahon, “A Disused Shed in Co. Wexford”
19 Dec 2023
Eavan Boland, “Irish Poetry”
17 Dec 2023
Sean O’Brien, “Cousin Coat”
13 Dec 2023
Alice Oswald, “Various Portents”
11 Dec 2023
Blindness, War & History
14 Aug 2019
Week of the Bomb: Friday
9 Aug 2019
Week of the Bomb: Thursday
8 Aug 2019
Week of the Bomb: Wednesday
7 Aug 2019
Week of the Bomb: Tuesday
6 Aug 2019
Week of the Bomb: Monday
5 Aug 2019
History is An Accident
23 Jul 2019
A Housewife in the 1960s
18 Jul 2019
Voices from 1900-1914
25 Jun 2019
Primo Levi’s Hardest Thoughts on the Holocaust
16 Jun 2019
Who are These Faces & What are Their Stories?
3 Jun 2019
Sleepwalking into World War One
24 May 2019
“One day the Gestapo hanged a child”: God on Trial at Auschwitz
16 Apr 2019
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