CR Episode 210: Warton’s The Pleasures of Melancholy

Critical Readings

EpisodeJan 29, 202457m

CR Episode 210: Warton’s The Pleasures of Melancholy

Critical Readings

EpisodeJan 29, 202457m

The panel introduces one of the Graveyard Poets, Thomas Warton the Younger, and reads in full his most famous poem, "The Pleasures of Melancholy", with attention to how it prefigures the Romantics even as it remains part of the Augustan worldview.Continue reading

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Critical Readings examines key literary texts using close reading and critical analysis, and explains these approaches in discussion. Listeners will learn about the texts themselves and about how to approach a text for critical analysis.

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