On this episode we get back to our chronological trip through English literature with a Shakespeare sonnet.

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Charlie the Brit joins me for a chat about two of my favorite things, classic literature and history.

Here we read The Charge of the Light Brigade and hear about the history surrounding it.

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On this episode we have a great conversation with one of my good friends, voice actor Mitch North. We met back in May 2024 while recording an audio drama called "Tip Lewis and His Lamp" at Lamplighter Studios in New YorkNew York while recording a in audio drama, and this is this first time we've talked at length since.

In addition to talking about voice acting, character development, and the creative process, Mitch reads William Blake and Shakespeare in various character voices.

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In this episode we'll read a poem by Francis Bacon called The Life of Man.

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In this episode of The Cultured Bumpkin we'll read a poem from 1590 called The Bargain.

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In this episode we'll hear from ole Ed Spenser, the guy who ended the 200 year English poetry drought after Chaucer with this 1579 beauty called My Love Is Like To Ice.

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In this episode we'll take a look at the evolution of the English language between the 300+ years between Norman conquest John Wycliffe'stranslation of the Latin Vulgate. We'll also read a modern English version of Chaucer's Prologue to the Canturbury Tales.

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Ode On A Grecian Urn by John Keats.

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A beautiful poem by Edna St Vincent Millay

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An unsettling short story by America's master of horror fiction, Edgar Allen Poe.

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