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Influential Lyrics

Kyle Grimes

A podcast that introduces some of the finest lyric poems in the English language. Focusing on form and sound, Influential Lyrics helps listeners actually hear and appreciate the wisdom and artistry of the language.

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13 episodes

  1. William Blake's "The Garden of Love" 14:52
  2. William Blake's "The Lamb" 17:27
  3. William Wordsworth's "I wandered lonely as a cloud" 18:54
  4. William Wordsworth's "The world is too much with us" 14:58
  5. Charlotte Smith's "Written at the Close of Spring" 16:11
  6. Alexander Pope, from Essay on Criticism 19:30
  7. Anne Bradstreet's "By Night when Others Soundly Slept" 14:32
  8. Richard Lovelace, "To Althea: from Prison" 16:44
  9. George Herbert, "The Collar" 19:08
  10. John Donne's "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" 17:53
  11. William Shakespeare, Sonnet #12 17:32
  12. Sir Thomas Wyatt, "The Long Love that in my thought doth harbour..." 13:50
  13. Sir Patrick Spens 17:15