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- H. D. Thoreau, The Maine Woods, "Ktaadn," §7; Sarah Orne Jewett, A Country Doctor, ch. 9A
Episode 20 concludes the first of The Maine Woods's three essays, "Ktaadn," then begins the 9th chapter of Jewett's A Country Doctor.
59 min - H. D. Thoreau, The Maine Woods, "Ktaadn," §6; Sarah Orne Jewett, A Country Doctor, chs. 7 & 8
Episode 19 takes us up Mount Katahdin with Henry David Thoreau, whose essay "Ktaadn" delivers its rhetorical climax in today's reading. By extending the episode beyond its usual length, we make time for two chapters of Jewett's A Country Doctor.
1 hr 17 min - H. D. Thoreau, The Maine Woods, "Ktaadn," §5; Sarah Orne Jewett, A Country Doctor, ch. 6
Episode 18 presents more of Thoreau's long essay "Ktaadn" and chapter 6 of Jewett's A Country Doctor.
1 hr - H. D. Thoreau, The Maine Woods, "Ktaadn," §4; Sarah Orne Jewett, A Country Doctor, chs. 4B & 5
In Episode 17, we continue our readings from Thoreau's "Ktaadn" and Jewett's A Country Doctor.
1 hr - H. D. Thoreau, The Maine Woods, "Ktaadn," §3; poems by Frederick Goddard Tuckerman; Sarah Orne Jewett, A Country Doctor, chs. 3B & 4A
Episode 16 continues our reading from "Ktaadn." Thoreau's mention of poisoning wolves is the occasion for sharing a Tuckerman sonnet that addresses the topic as well as the 19th-century American poet's well-regarded pastoral ode, "The Cricket." The episode concludes with more of Jewett's A Country Doctor.
59 min - H. D. Thoreau, The Maine Woods, "Ktaadn," §2; Sarah Orne Jewett, A Country Doctor, chs. 2 & 3A
Episode 15 picks up where we left off with Thoreau's trek northward toward Mr. Katahdin in The Maine Woods. Then, having so far presented only the short initial chapter of Sarah Orne Jewett's A Country Doctor, The Reading Hour forges into the story of young Nan Prince.
1 hr - H. D. Thoreau, The Maine Woods, "Ktaadn," §1; Thomas Gray, "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"; Sarah Orne Jewett, A Country Doctor, ch. 1
In episode 14 (2.2), we begin two longer works related to Maine: Henry David Thoreau's nonfictional account of his adventures in the state, The Maine Woods (1864), and the York County author Sarah Orne Jewett's novel A Country Doctor (1884). Because "Ktaadn," the opening essay of Thoreau's three-part book, quotes from Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard," that poem is read aloud in full.
57 min - H. D. Thoreau, "A Winter Walk" & two poems ("Sic Vita," "Conscience . . .")
Episode 13 (or season 2, episode 1 = §2.1) introduces Henry David Thoreau's ecological prose to The Reading Hour with the essay "A Winter Walk" (1843) and serves us as a preface to the longer Thoreauvian work to come: The Maine Woods (1864). The hour concludes with two of Thoreau's poems: "Sic Vita" and "Conscience is instinct bred in the house").
1 hr - V. Woolf, To the Lighthouse, Part 3, chs. 12 & 13; Emerson, "The Tragic," "The Senses and the Soul"
Episode 12 concludes our reading of Woolf's To the Lighthouse then presents two short essays that Ralph Waldo Emerson published in The Dial between 1840 and 1844: "The Tragic" and "The Senses and the Soul.".
1 hr 3 min - V. Woolf, To the Lighthouse, Part 3, chs. 8-11
Episode 11 opens with interpretive remarks about Woolf's project and several of her characters' concerns in To the Lighthouse's final part; chapters 8-11 of "The Lighthouse" are then presented.
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About The Reading Hour
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Host Andrew Osborn reads aloud from novels, stories, essays, and poems in the public domain—works of literary accomplishment published before 1930. Most episodes include parts of at least one long…
work read serially over a number of weeks; recent examples include Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse, Henry David Thoreau's The Maine Woods, and Sarah Orne Jewett's A Country Doctor. A professor of literature and poetry-journal editor, Osborn sometimes offers interpretive commentary on what he voices, but the focus is always on sharing the language of great writers. Welcome!