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
The Hornblower Series – C.S. Forester
Mr. Midshipman Hornblower (Book 1) – 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
The Old Curiosity Shop – Charles Dickens
Nicholas Nickleby – Charles Dickens
Our Mutual Friend – Charles Dickens
