About this episode
In this episode, Uncle Jerry and Angela get caught up on the latest Swiftie news, including the engagement and The Release Party of a Showgirl, and then they get into answering your questions from Instagram and TikTok. We cover poetry curriculum, how to get into scholarly pursuits, how Angela convinced Uncle Jerry to do the podcast, and how we select which songs we cover. There are links below to (most of!) the recommended literature from the episode. Some links are affiliate links, which means if you click and purchase, we will make a small commission at no cost to you. Works Cited: i carry your heart with me – e.e. cummings Epithalamion – Edmund Spenser The Hornblower Series – C.S. Forester Mr. Midshipman Hornblower (Book 1) – C.S. Forester African Queen – C.S. Forester The Good Shepherd – C.S. Forester 2001: A Space Odyssey – Arthur C. Clarke Stranger in a Strange Land Paperback – Robert A. Heinlein The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry The Oxford Book of Modern Verse – W.B. Yeats The Oxford Book of English Verse – Christopher Ricks The Norton Anthology of American Literature – Robert S. Levine E. E. Cummings: Complete Poems, 1904–1962 The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens: The Corrected Edition Leaves of Grass – Walt Whitman Metaphors We Live By – George Lakoff and Mark Johnson Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair – Pablo Neruda The Poet and His Book: The Collected Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson The Complete Poems: Anne Sexton The Penguin Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Poetry Paperback – Rita Dove American Poetry: The Twentieth Century, Volume 1: Henry Adams to Dorothy Parker – Robert Hass The Oxford Book of American Short Stories – Joyce Carol Oates A Cool Million Paperback – Nathanael West Lucky Jim Paperback – Kingsley Amis Cold Comfort Farm Paperback – Stella Gibbons Bleak House – Charles Dickens The Old Curiosity Shop – Charles Dickens Nicholas Nickleby – Charles Dickens Our Mutual Friend – Charles Dickens YouTube TikTok Instagram Angela’s Instagram