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  • Wallace Stevens

    Wallace Stevens
    Feb 24 2025

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    We get even more boggled than usual tackling three head-scratchers by American modernist Wallace Stevens (1879-1955).

    Domination of Black

    The Emperor of Ice Cream

    13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
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    1 hora e 38 minutos
  • A Very Merry Versify Christmas

    A Very Merry Versify Christmas
    Dec 17 2024

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    Robert Frost, Alfred Lord Tennyson and William Carlos Williams hang their Christmas stockings and get a full serving of Versify rambling. Shorter than a usual episode. It's a Christmas miracle!
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    1 hora e 25 minutos
  • Thomas Hardy - Live in Alfriston

    Thomas Hardy - Live in Alfriston
    Nov 19 2024

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    Versify record their first live podcast in the beautiful Sussex village of Alfriston, tackling the poetry of British literary titan, Thomas Hardy (1840-1928).

    Poems: The Voice, The Convergence of the Twain, At Castle Boterel.
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    1 hora e 26 minutos
  • Rainer Maria Rilke - Part 02

    Rainer Maria Rilke - Part 02
    May 22 2024

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    We cautiously dip our toe in Rilke's 'Duino Elegies' and get immediately swept out of our depth.


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    1 hora e 52 minutos
  • Rainer Maria Rilke - Part 01

    Rainer Maria Rilke - Part 01
    Apr 17 2024

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    We blunder our way through our first ever poet in translation with predictably confused results. Our victim this time is revered Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926).

    Poems:

    Evening
    The Panther
    Archaic Torso of Apollo
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    1 hora e 45 minutos
  • Maya Angelou

    Maya Angelou
    Mar 27 2024

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    We discuss the life and poetry of Maya Angelou (1928-2014).
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    1 hora e 36 minutos
  • John Keats

    John Keats
    Feb 12 2024

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    We tackle one of the almighty greats of English poetry with predictably sketchy results.

    'Reading King Lear', and odes on 'Melancholy' and 'A Grecian Urn' befuddle us plenty.
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    1 hora e 54 minutos
  • A Very Merry Versify Xmas 2023

    A Very Merry Versify Xmas 2023
    Dec 21 2023

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    A Very Merry Versify Xmas 2023
    Poetry
    e e cummings
    James Merrill
    Henry Longfellow
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    1 hora e 15 minutos