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1.9 What Taylor Swift and Robert Browning Have in Common

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Welcome back to The Community Library! I’m very excited to bring you this week’s episode, which is all about pop/country icon Taylor Swift and mid-19th-century poet Robert Browning. In this episode I discuss the parallels between Browning’s 1842 poem My Last Duchess and Swift’s 2014 hit Blank Space. I had lots of fun creating this episode, and I hope you enjoy! 

Our next discussion pick is The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry!

  • Here are links to free audiobook versions:
  • The Katherine Woods translation
  • The Richard Howard translation

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    • Some links to things I talked about in the episode: 
    • My Last Duchess by Robert Browning
    • Blank Space by Taylor Swift
    • Taylor Swift talking about how and why she wrote Blank Space 
    • Robert Browning’s Blank Space – British Literature 1700-1900, A Course Blog
    • “My Last Duchess” and “Blank Space” – Later English Literature
    • @antipodean.books on Instagram 


      • Please visit my website here for a full list of links and notes on what I talked about in this episode, plus a full transcription!

        

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