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How Did the Prim, Religious Christina Rossetti Come to Write Such a Bizarre and Hedonistic Poem?

The History of Literature Podcast Looks at the Writer of “Goblin Market”
June 27, 2022  By History of Literature
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A Close Reading of Emily Dickinson’s Poem “Because I could not stop for Death”

From The History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson
June 21, 2022  By History of Literature
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A Close Reading of Christina Rossetti’s Sensationally Bizarre Poem “Goblin Market”

From The History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson
June 13, 2022  By History of Literature
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Why Walt Whitman Wrote Leaves of Grass

From The History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson
June 6, 2022  By History of Literature
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What, Exactly, Is American Literature?

Ilan Stavans Guests on The History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson
May 31, 2022  By History of Literature
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Considering the Morals of Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling

From the The History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson
May 23, 2022  By History of Literature
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Beverly Gologorsky on the Turmoil of the Late 1960s

From The History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson
May 16, 2022  By History of Literature
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Robin Hemley on Kafka and Writerly Ambition

From The History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson
May 9, 2022  By History of Literature
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What Makes Mysteries so Compelling?

From The History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson
May 2, 2022  By History of Literature
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On the First Work of Literature by an African American Author

From The History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson
April 25, 2022  By History of Literature
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Linda H. Davis on the Literary Fame and Notorious Exploits of Stephen Crane

This Week on The History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson
April 18, 2022  By History of Literature
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On the Creative Partnership of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes

Heather Clarks Guests on The History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson
April 11, 2022  By History of Literature
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What Literary Techniques Did Sigmund Freud Employ?

From The History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson
April 4, 2022  By History of Literature
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Writers in Odessa, Ukraine’s “Black Sea Pearl”

From The History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson
March 28, 2022  By History of Literature
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When Mark Twain Tried to Start a Publishing Company (and Epically Failed)

From The History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson
March 21, 2022  By History of Literature
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“I am Never Too Busy to Think of S&S.” On Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility

From The History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson
March 14, 2022  By History of Literature
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How to Express Your Love to Virginia Woolf

Lessons from Vita Sackville-West on the History of Literature
March 7, 2022  By History of Literature
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Ten Sentences That Defined a Nation: On the Gettysburg Address

From the History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson
February 28, 2022  By History of Literature
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Anna Holmes on the Radical Life of Margaret Wise Brown

From the History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson
February 22, 2022  By History of Literature
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On the Life and Works of Indelible American Poet Gwendolyn Brooks

From the History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson
February 14, 2022  By History of Literature
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