The Antidote-Classic Poetry for Modern Life
A Reading of “On a Poet’s Lips I Slept” by Percy Shelley
Sep 27, 2008, 11:00 pmThis drama of reading is beautifully conveyed in Percy Shelley’s short lyric, taken from his play Prometheus Unbound.
A Reading of an Extract From “A Song for Saint Cecilia’s Day” by John Dryden
Sep 5, 2008, 10:00 amIn the beginning was the Word. Or should that be Music? In Dryden’s song, it is the power of a “tuneful voice” that plucks life and delight from primal chaos.
A Reading of 'The Character of a Happy Life' by Sir Henry Wotton
Aug 11, 2008, 9:00 amWhat is the secret to happiness? ... For Sir Henry Wotton, happiness equals freedom—a freedom that exists somewhere between the extremes of servitude and anarchy.
A Reading of 'The Mermaid Tavern' by John Keats
Jul 9, 2008, 7:00 amIn this poem John Keats finds "Elysium," or heaven, in the local bar...
A Reading of 'The Apparition' by Herman Melville
Jun 26, 2008, 7:00 amHave you ever undergone a conversion experience? One where, in a sudden flash, you fundamentally changed your perspective? Such moments, which define our lives, are not easily forgotten...
A Reading of an Extract from Sir Edwin Arnold's 'The Light of Asia'
Jun 21, 2008, 7:00 amWhat is our response to death? Not in the abstract but in the horribly, humiliatingly particular? What is our reaction when we see a body broken into pieces, burned, or tossed into the ground, with apparently no trace of its former humanity, no trace of soul?
A Reading of an Extract from 'The Idylls of the King' by Tennyson
Jun 10, 2008, 7:00 amGood and bad, right and wrong. Without these basic moral distinctions, what kind of life could we lead?
A Reading of 'A Clock Stopped' by Emily Dickinson
May 29, 2008, 7:00 amWhen is a clock not a clock?...
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