This September marks the 250 years of Caspar David Friedrich - the famous German painter who has become synonymous with Romanticism. In this post I will give a few listening tips on the subject of CDF, including podcasts and radio programmes that will help you get acquainted with this remarkable artist.
โSummer Moodsโ by John Clare
Clareโs short poem โSummer Moodsโ wonderfully captures the sense of enjoyment in a simple nature walk on a summer evening.
Listening tips: Explore the poetic worlds of William Wordsworth
In this monthly instalment of my listening tips, Iโd like to share a few podcasts and radio programmes that have helped me learn more about this wonderful writer and find renewed appreciation for his poetry. I hope you find them interesting and useful!
‘Hallowmas’ by Madison Julius Cawein
There's about a dozen poets that I've always felt a special affinity to. Some well-known names are among them, such as Rainer Maria Rilke, Walt Whitman and Robert Frost, but there are also those whose works seem to have fallen out of favour with the reading public and who are no longer household names. One …
