Versify - Poetry and English Literature

By Dan Hill

Three genial enthusiasts read and discuss poetry.... more

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Versify - Poetry and English Literature episodes:

September 02, 2025 Rabindranath Tagore
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A selection of poems by the esteemed Indian polymath, Rabindranath Tagore.
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1h 51min
June 14, 2025 John Milton
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Three Poems by John Milton.
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1h 26min
February 24, 2025 Wallace Stevens
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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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1h 38min
December 17, 2024 A Very Merry Versify Christmas
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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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1h 26min
November 19, 2024 Thomas Hardy - Live in Alfriston
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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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1h 26min
May 22, 2024 Rainer Maria Rilke - Part 02
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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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1h 53min
April 17, 2024 Rainer Maria Rilke - Part 01
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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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1h 46min
March 27, 2024 Maya Angelou
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We discuss the life and poetry of Maya Angelou (1928-2014).
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1h 36min
February 12, 2024 John Keats
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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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1h 55min
December 21, 2023 A Very Merry Versify Xmas 2023
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A Very Merry Versify Xmas 2023
Poetry
e e cummings
James Merrill
Henry Longfellow
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1h 16min

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