Welcome to the Pens and Poison Podcast! This is not your ordinary literature podcast. Join writer Liza Libes as she explores the state of humanities education, the publishing industry, and the literary world at large through a series of spicy interviews, hot takes, and literary ramblings. 

On today’s episode, Liza talks to author and professor Eric Weiskott, who teaches English literature at Boston College. Eric is the author of the poetry chapbook Chanties: An American Dream and the scholarly monograph Meter and Modernity in English Verse, 1350-1650. His writing on literature, politics, and higher education appears in The Atlantic, Vox, and the Chronicle of Higher Education. Today, Eric teaches us about the English alliterative tradition as we discuss and analyze two Medieval works: Beowulf and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. 

You can learn more about his work on his website here: https://ericweiskott.com/. 

And don’t forget to pick up your copies of Beowulf and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight here:*

Beowulf: https://amzn.to/3znIgJf

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: https://amzn.to/4cLwMxN

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Special thank you to composer Nathaniel Lindstrom for providing the track “Quartz Moth” for today’s sound effects. 

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Check out our first podcast episode here:

Episode 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wU9CdpSCGw&t=50s 

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Hungry for some poetry analysis? 

Wallace Stevens "The World as Meditation": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-EmEIe9c5k

T.S. Eliot "The Waste Land": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTPlOR6nsOc&t=535s 

Sir Philip Sidney "Astrophil & Stella":  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2H5Ygms2uKc 

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