All Episodes

Victorian Poetry 26: Last class: Housman after a touch of Yeats and a little Michael Field

Victorian Poetry 25: Jeff Nunokawa visits to discuss Wilde’s ”Ballad of Reading Gaol”

Victorian Poetry 24: The Rhymers’ Club: Fin de siècle poetry, towards Wilde and Yeats

Victorian Poetry 23: Amy Levy, Robert Bridges and... Kipling

Victorian Poetry 22: A bit more Stevenson, George R. Sims, and the amazing Alice Meynell

Victorian Poetry 21: Later Victorian Forms: Stevenson, Guggenberger, MacDonald

Victorian Poetry 20: George Eliot, Hardy, Hopkins

Victorian Poetry 19: Swinburne and Hopkins

Victorian Poetry 18: A touch of Fitzgerald and Hopkins; more on Meredith and Swinburne

Victorian Poetry 17: Some Meredith, then we begin The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam

Victorian Poetry 16: A little Patmore, then the rest of Goblin Market

Victorian Poetry 15: D.G. and C. Rossetti

Victorian Poetry 14: D.G. Rossetti and pre-Raphealitism

Victorian Poetry 13: Concluding class on Clough’s ”Amours de Voyage”

Victorian Poetry 12: Mainly Clough plus some narrative theory

Victorian Poetry 11: ”Long ago he was one of the singers” (Edward Lear) plus a little Clare

Victorian Poetry 10: ”The Hunting of the Snark” and some Clare

Victorian Poetry 9: ” ’Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came’ ”

Victorian Poetry 8: More on R. Browning’s ”Development” and then mainly his”Thamuris Marching”

Victorian Poetry 7: more on Aurora Leigh and then some Robert Browning

Victorian Poetry 6: mainly Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Victorian Poetry 5: E. Brontë, dialect, the amazing William Barnes

Victorian Poetry 4: Some filiations (Barnes, Hardy, Tennyson, Fitzgerald, &c.); then ”TITHONUS”

Victorian Poetry 3: Tennyson’s technique, Tennyson’s despair

Victorian Poetry 2: The weirdness of Tennyson

Victorian Poetry 1 -- Intro with poems by R. Browning, Beddoes, Patmore, Meynell, C. Rossetti

Poetry Episode 24: Last class, mainly on finishing Elisa Gonzalez’s ”Notes Toward an Elegy”

Poetry course 23: kind of whacky but more on Bishop and then Elisa Gonzalez

Poetry: A Basic Course 22: Tennyson, Rich, Agha Shahid Ali, Hemans, Bishop

Poetry A Basic Course episode 21: Beauty and truth in Dickinson and Keats

Poetry Episode 20: Chiefly ”The Emperor of Ice Cream”

Poetry a basic course episode 19: Some villanelles, mainly

Poetry Episode 18 Mont Blanc Concluded

Poetry Class Episode 17: Mont Blanc part 2

Poetry episode 16: More on metaphor, especially Shelley’s Mont Blanc: part 1 of a discussion of that poem

Class 15: More sonnets, and more on the relation of sonnet to metaphor

Episode 14 -- some sonnets

Poetry A Basic Course Episode 13 More Pope, Milton, Wyatt

Episode 12: Some Paradise Lost, some Pope, some more on meter, prime numbers

More on the theology of Paradise Lost (Episode 11)

A day that turned out to be an intro to Paradise Lost (Episode 10)

Different sorts of stresses (Episode 9)

What all poems are always about; ”We are Seven” (Episode 8)

More on lines

What makes a line?

Rhyme. And dialogue -- alternation and conflict in ballads

Rhyme: Making the Arbitrary Make Sense

More on rhyme and meter

some more on ”b o d y” and then on Alice Notley’s ”The Comfort”

First episode of Poetry: A Basic Course:James Merrill’s

Advanced Shakespeare 28, Friday May 1 2020--LAST CLASS. Dolabella and Cleopatra's dream

Advanced Shakespeare 27 April 30 2020 -- The Death of Antony

Advanced Shakespeare 26, Tuesday April 28 2020: Act IV and Antony's Extravagance

Advanced Shakespeare 25, Friday April 24, 2020: Act III concluded: Knowing Antony and knowing Cleoipatra

Advanced Shakespeare 24, Tuesday April 21, 2020: Act III continued: Antony profuse wastefulness

Advanced Shakespeare 23 Friday April 17 2020 -- dramatic perspectives

Bonus aria on Wittgenstein

Advanced Shakespeare 22 Tuesday 4/14/20 Leaders and advisors and news management

Advanced Shakespeare 21 Friday 4/3/2020 Messengers

Advanced Shakespeare 20 Tuesday 3-31-20 She did make defect perfection (Continuing Act II)

Advanced Shakespeare 19 Friday 3-27-20 Act I concluded

Advanced Shakespeare 18 Friday 3-20-20 Antony and Cleopatra Act I continued

Advanced Shakespeare 17. Antony and Cleopatra 2.1: the soothsayer and Cleopatra's women

Advanced Shakespeare 16 Being Mark Antony

Advanced Shakespeare 15, 3-10-20 Ages of the characters -- Shakespeare's temporal preferences

Advanced Shakespeare 14 3/6/2020 Opening of Antony and Cleopatra

Advanced Shakespeare 13 - March 3, 2020 Last class on Macbeth: sonnets and then "My way of life is fallen...."

Advanced Shakespeare 12 Feb 28 2020 Poetic form and Yes Fear ShakeFear

Advanced Shakespeare 11 2/25/20 Interiorizing time

Advanced Shakespeare 10 Class of 2/14/20

Advanced Shakespeare 9 2/11/20: Remorse and repentance

Advanced Shakespeare 8 2/7/20 Being a character and daemonization

Advanced Shakespeare 7 2/4/20 Friendship and love in Shakespeare

Advanced Shakespeare 6 1/31/20 -- witches and soothsayers and messengers o my

Advanced Shakespeare 5 1/28/20 De Quincey Knocking at the Gate

Advanced Shakespeare 4 Friday 1/24/19 -- knocking at the gate, &c

Advanced Shakespeare 3 1/21/20: Macbeth, conflict, Coleridge on puns

Advanced Shakespeare 2 1/17/20

Advanced Shakespeare Episode 1 1/14/20

Early Romantics XXVII 5-10-19 LONG Last class on Coleridge

Early Romantics XXVI Climbing Mt. Snowdon in Prelude XIII

Imagining Money XXXVII Wed 5-1-19 Last class: managing desire

Early Romantics XXV 4-29-19 -- The Prelude and Wordsworth in general

Imagining Money XXXVI Mon 4-29-19 Preference, loss aversion, anxiety

Imagining Money XXXV Thurs 4-18-19 maguffins and the management of longing

Early Romantics XXIV Wednesday 4-17-19

Imagining Money XXXIV Wed 4-17-19 Stories of gambling

Early Romantics XXIII Monday 4-15-19 Home and homelessness

Imagining Money XXXIII Mon 4-15-19 How endings shape desires

Imagining Money XXXII Loss aversion - Thaler

Early Romantics XXII Wednesday 4-10-19 Intimations Ode, Prelude, Nature

Imagining Money XXXI -- poker, money, chips, macguffins, loss aversion

Early Romantics XXI Monday 4-8-19 More Intimations Ode

Imagining Money XXX Mon 4-9-19 MacGuffins

Imagining Money XXIX Hyperbolic Discounting

Early Romantics XX Wed 4-3-19

Imagining Money XXVIII Wed 4-3-19 Hyperbolic Discounting and such

Early Romantics XIX Monday 4-1-19 Bouncing around the Prelude

Imagining Money XXVII Mon 4-1-19 Common Knowledge and poker

Imagining Money XXVI Thursday 3-27-19 Mainly on cultural capital