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The Well Read Poem — 100 episodes
S20E6: "Christmas" by John Betjeman (S14 Encore)
S20E5: "Noël" by Théophile Gautier (S14 Encore)
S20E4: "Good King Wenceslas" by Vaclav Svoboda, trans. by John Mason Neale (S14 Encore)
S20E3: "Christmas Carol" by Sara Teasdale (S14 Encore)
S20E2: "Mistletoe" by Walter de la Mare (S14 Encore)
S20E1: "The Magi" by William Butler Yeats (S14 Encore)
S19E6: "Aubade" by Philip Larkin
S19E5: "The Twa Corbies" Anonymous Scottish
S19E4: "Ecclesiastes 12" from the King James Version
S19E3: "Elegies 11.28" by Propertius (Translated by Constance Carrier)
S19E2: "On a Dead Child" by Robert Bridges
S19E1: "Epitaph on the Countess of Pembroke" by William Browne
S18E6: "A Prayer for My Daughter" by William Butler Yeats
S18E5: "To My Brothers" by John Keats
S18E4: "Satire 6, Book 1" by Horace (trans. by John Conington)
S18E3: "To My Mother" by Robert Louis Stevenson
S18E2: "Forefathers" by Edmund Blunden
S18E1: "My Sister's Sleep" by Dante Rosetti
S17E6: "The Dissolution of the Monasteries" by William Wordsworth
S17E5: "Poem of a Proposition of Nakedness" by Walt Whitman
S17E4: "To a Republican Friend" by Matthew Arnold
S17E3: "Sonnet 11: On the Desecration Which Followed My Writing Certain Treatises" by John Milton
S17E2: "The Death of King Charles II" by John Dryden
S17E1: "On the Jubilee of Queen Victoria" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
S16E6: "Summer" by Christina Rossetti
S16E5: "On the Move" by Thom Gunn
S16E4: "Adlestrop" by Edward Thomas
S16E3: "July, 1964" by Donald Davie
S16E2: "The Lonely Hunter" by William Sharp
S16E1: "Summer Sun" by Robert Louis Stevenson
S15E6: "Happy the Man, Who, Like Ulysses" by Joachim du Bellay trans. by Richard Wilbur
S15E5: "Ask Not (Odes I.11)" by Horace (trans. by John Conington)
S15E4: "I Do Not Like Thee, Doctor Fell" by Martial, trans. by Tom Brown
S15E3: "The Cat" by Charles Baudelaire (trans. by Roy Campbell)
S15E2: "Marsyas" by Jose-Maria de Heredia (trans. by Thomas Banks)
S15E1: "On His Brother's Death" by Catullus (trans. by Aubrey Beardsley)
S14E6: "Christmas" by John Betjeman
S14E5: "Noël" by Théophile Gautier
S14E4: "Good King Wenceslas" by Vaclav Svoboda, trans. by John Mason Neale
S14E3: "Christmas Carol" by Sara Teasdale
S14E2: "Mistletoe" by Walter de la Mare
S14E1: "The Magi" by William Butler Yeats
S13E6: "The English War" by Dorothy L. Sayers
S13E5: "The Burial of Sir John Moore after Corunna" by Charles Wolfe
S13E4: "Into Battle" by Julian Grenfell
S13E3: "To Lucasta, on Going to the Wars" by Richard Lovelace
S13E2: "To Pompeius" Ode 2.7 by Horace, trans. by John Davidson
S13E1: "David's Lament for Saul and Jonathan", 2 Samuel 1, KJV
S12E6: Idea 61, "Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part" by Michael Drayton
S12E5: Delia 45, "Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night" by Samuel Daniel
S12E4: Sonnet 138, "When my love swears that she is made of truth"
S12E3: Sonnet 106, "When in the chronicle of wasted time" by William Shakespeare
S12E2: Sonnet 18, "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" by William Shakespeare
S12E1: Sonnet 1, "From fairest creatures we desire increase" by William Shakespeare
S11E6: "On Shakespeare" by John Milton
S11E5: "Edward Lear" by W.H. Auden
S11E4: "To Walter de la Mare" by T. S. Elliot
S11E3: "The Arrest of Oscar Wilde at the Cadogan Hotel" by John Betjeman
S11E2: "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer" by John Keats
S11E1: "The Lost Leader" by Robert Browning
S10E6: "The British Journalist" by Humbert Wolfe
S10E5: "The Chimney Sweeper" by William Blake
S10E4: "Surgeons must be very careful" by Emily Dickinson
S10E3: "The Song of the Shirt" by Thomas Hood
S10E2: "Men Who March Away" by Thomas Hardy
S10E1: "Fanfare for the Makers" by Louis MacNeice
S9E6: "Loveliest of Trees" by A. E. Houseman
S9E5: "Nothing Gold Can Stay" by Robert Frost
S9E4: "To Autumn" by John Keats
S9E3: "Bed in Summer" by Robert Louis Stevenson
S9E2: "Sumer is I-cumin In" by Anonymous
S9E1: "The Rhodora" by Ralph Waldo Emerson
S8E6: "Ode to a Nightingale" by John Keats
S8E5: "Old Adam, the Carrion Crow" by Thomas Beddoes
S8E4: "Le Corbeau et le Renard (The Crow and the Fox)" by Jean de la Fontaine
S8E3: "The Oven Bird" by Robert Frost
S8E2: "The Eagle" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
S8E1: "Les Hiboux (The Owls)" by Charles Baudelaire
S7E6: "Love Poem" by John Frederick Nims
S7E5: "O Tell Me the Truth About Love" by W. H. Auden
S7E4: Remember Me by Christina Rossetti
S7E3: "Mother, I cannot Mind my Wheel" by Walter Savage Landor
S7E2: "Sonnet 130: My Mistress' Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun" by William Shakespeare
S7E1: "A Farewell to Arms" by George Peele
S6E6: "A Sonnet (Two Voices Are There)" By James Kenneth Stephenson
S6E5: "A Satire Against Mankind" by John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester
S6E4: "To a Poet, Who Would Have Me Praise Certain Bad Poets, Imitator of His and Mine" by William Butler Yeats
S6E3: "Zimri" from "Absalom and Achitophel" by John Dryden
S6E2: "Atticus" by Alexander Pope
S6E1: "On a General Election" by Hilaire Belloc
S5E6: "Summer Evening" by Walter de la Mare
S5E5: "Alexander" by Walter de la Mare
S5E4: "Polonius" by Walter de la Mare
S5E3: "Breughel's Winter" by Walter de la Mare
S5E2: "Ghost" by Walter de la Mare
S5E1: "All That's Past" by Walter de la Mare
S4E6: "The Blinded Bird" by Thomas Hardy
S4E5: "A Runnable Stag" by John Davidson
S4E4: "Epigram Engraved on the Collar of a Dog Which I Gave to His Highness" by Alexander Pope
S4E3: "The Kraken" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson