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Imitation and Optimism: The Essays of Alexander Pope

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Send us Fan Mail While many may think of Swift's magnificent octopus as a mere children's adventure tale, it is, in fact, one of the darkest and most troubling satires in the English language.  Written as the Enlightenment began asserting rationality as the measure of all things, Gulliver's Travels questions the very premises of western culture themselves.     Link to Gulliver's Travels: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/17157/17157-h/17157-h.htm Support the show Please...

A Critique of Reason: Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

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Food for Thought: Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal" and Other Writings

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Seditious Greetings!: The Political Code of "O Come All Ye Faithful" 

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"Read All About It!": The Rise of the Public Press

Where rhyme gets its reason! In a historical survey of English literature, I take a personal and philosophical approach to the major texts of the tradition in order to not only situate the poems, prose, and plays in their own contexts, but also to show their relevance to our own. This show is for the general listener: as a teacher of high school literature and philosophy, I am less than a scholar but more than a buff. I hope to edify and entertain!

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