In this monthly instalment of my listening tips, I’d 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 …
“To Autumn” by John Keats
This week’s poetry post continues our seasonal journey through autumn-themed poems. If you’re an English language learner, don’t miss the vocabulary exercise found at the bottom of the post, along with the links to some additional tools that will help you with this poem. “To Autumn” was written by John Keats, one the most important …
“To Nature” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge was one of the most important poets of the 18th and the early 19th century. He was a close friend of another very influential English poet, William Wordsworth, and his sister Dorothy - so close that he chose to move to the Lake District to live near them. The two Lake Poets …