Skip to content
The Poetry Fix cover art

All episodes

The Poetry Fix, 107 episodes. Page 1 of 2.

#
Title
1

The Wolf and the Lamb: Prudence in the Face of Injustice

2

Mutabilitie: Change as Tyrant

3

The Wife of Usher’s Well: It Fell About the Martinmass

4

Epithalamion: An Unusual Invocation

5

A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning

6

The Ecstasy: A Dialogue of One

7

Since She Whom I Lov'd Hath Paid Her Last Debt: A Holy Thirsty Dropsy

8

Start Close In: The Ground You Know

9

Pied Beauty: Dappled Things

10

The Banquet: Sweet and Sacred Cheer

11

The Agony: Do You Want to Know

12

Kubla Khan: Beware, Beware!

13

Kubla Khan: Caverns Measureless to Man

14

The Holy Communion: Leaping the Wall

15

The Tables Turned: A Study Break

16

The Grasshopper and the Ant: Not Quite a Morality Tale

17

The Oak and the Reed: Let us See the End

18

I Taste a Liquour Never Brewed: Inebriate of Air

19

How Many Nights: Who’s Afraid of the Dark?

20

Nobody Knows This Little Rose: Taken From the Ways

21

The Poetry Fix: Comus, Part Seven

22

Comus: Square my Trial to my Proportioned Strength

23

Comus: Such Divine Enchanting Ravishment

24

Comus: The Lady Enters

25

Comus: A False Shepherd

26

Comus: A Trickster Spirit

27

Mortality: Their Story we Cannot Unfold

28

Mortality: Why Should the Spirit of Mortal be Proud?

29

Old Ironsides: The Eagle of the Sea

30

The Dream of the Rood: The Journey Heavenward

31

The Dream of the Rood: Mary and the Cross

32

The Dream of the Rood: A Tale for All Times

33

The Dream of the Rood: Suffering is not the Enemy

34

The Dream of the Rood: The Tragedy and the Glory

35

The Legend of the Knight of the Red Cross: The Road to Error

36

The Legend of the Knight of the Red Cross: What's Up With Una?

37

The Legend of the Knight of the Red Cross: An Untried Knight and a Lovely Maiden

38

Prologue to the Legend of the Knight of the Red Cross: Choose Your Fighters

39

The Milk-Maid and the Milk-Pail: Of Daydreams and Lost Opportunities

40

We Should not Mind so Small a Flower: Restoring the Kingdom

41

Architect's Watercolor: Each Minute is Encounter

42

Comus: To Quench the Draught of Pheobus

43

Comus: The Rank Vapors of this Sin-Worn Mold

44

Sic Transit Gloria Mundi: Accept this "Bonnie Doon"

45

Sic Transit Gloria Mundi: Insolvency, Sublime!

46

The Abyss: Above, Below, On Every Side

47

The Benefactors: The Pinch of Pain and Fear

48

Adam's Curse: As Weary-Hearted as that Hollow Moon

49

The Boston Evening Transcript: Who Are You, When Evening Falls?

50

Safe in Their Alabaster Chambers: A Meditation on Legacy

51

As Kingfishers Catch Fire: Lovely in Eyes not His

52

On Time: The Temporal and the Eternal

53

Demain dès l'aube: Facing the Unspeakable

54

America: Perennial With the Earth

55

Break, Break, Break: When Tragedy Paralyzes

56

The Ballad of Blasphemous Bill: The Dark Twist

57

The Ballad of Blasphemous Bill: The Grateful Dead

58

Aunt Helen: A Damning Silence

59

Holy Sonnet X: Death be not Proud

60

At a Solemn Music: Milton vs the Puritans

61

Down by the Salley Gardens: The One that Got Away

62

The Good-Morrow: Love so Alike

63

An Inner Happiness is Absolutely of my World: A Door to the Soul

64

Holy Sonnet XII: A Greater Wonder

65

Ode to the West Wind: Beyond the Grave

66

Ode to the West Wind: Destruction and Renewal

67

Holy Sonnet IX: A Heavenly, Lethean Flood

68

Love (III): When Love Bids You Welcome

69

The Sacrifice: "Was Ever Grief Like Mine?"

70

Love (II): Such True Desires

71

Love (I): Thou Standing By

72

Little Brother: The Wrath to Come

73

The Hollow Men: This is the Dead Land

74

Beggar to Beggar Cried: Driven by the Itch

75

The Hollow Men: When Life and Death Mean Nothing

76

The Nativity Ode: When Wisest Fate Says No

77

The Nativity Ode: Such Music Sweet

78

The Nativity Ode: With Wonder Whist

79

The Nativity Ode: When Light Comes to Darkness

80

The Windhover: A Christological Kestrel

81

The World is Too Much With Us: Bethink Your Creed

82

Guigemar: The Confession

83

Guigemar: Cupid's Ambush

84

Guigemar: The Hospitality

85

Guigemar: The Encounter

86

Guigemar: The Caged Lady

87

Guigemar: The Voyage

88

Guigemar: The Curse

89

Guigemar: The Hunt

90

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock: Do I Dare to Eat a Peach?

91

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock: The Perils of Communication

92

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock: When Death Itself Mocks Us

93

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock: How Should I Presume?

94

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock: To Dare or Not to Dare?

95

The Poetry Fix: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, Part 2

96

The Poetry Fix: Bavarian Gentians

97

The Poetry Fix: On This Island

98

The Poetry Fix: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

99

The Poetry Fix: Easter, 1916

100

The Poetry Fix: Spring