It’s been a while but Rusty Sonnets sneaks in a final track for 2020. This episode looks at the angsty Dover honeymoon of the Victorian poet Matthew Arnold.

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Rusty Sonnets - Dover Beach By Matthew Arnold

This week’s Rusty Sonnets marks the fourth episode of our monthly Paradise Lost Book Club. Always wanted to read Paradise Lost but felt the great tome was a little bit too daunting? Well, let’s all read it together. We’ll be looking at one book(chapter)every month until we finish with Book 12 in December. You can listen to the other parts here: soundcloud.com/rustysonnets/sets/paradise-lost-book-club If you enjoy the podcast you can buy me a coffee via my Ko-Fi page: ko-fi.com/niallosullivan

Rusty Sonnets - Paradise Lost Book Club Part 4

This week’s Rusty Sonnets marks the third episode of our monthly Paradise Lost Book Club. Always wanted to read Paradise Lost but felt the great tome was a little bit too daunting? Well, let’s all read it together. We’ll be looking at one book(chapter)every month until we finish with Book 12 in December. You can listen to the other parts here: https://soundcloud.com/rustysonnets/sets/paradise-lost-book-club If you enjoy the podcast you can buy me a coffee via my Ko-Fi page: ko-fi.com/niallosullivan

Rusty Sonnets - Paradise Lost Book Club Part 3

This week’s Rusty Sonnets marks the second episode of our monthly Paradise Lost Book Club. Always wanted to read Paradise Lost but felt the great tome was a little bit too daunting? Well, let’s all read it together. We’ll be looking at one book(chapter)every month until we finish with Book 12 in December. You can listen to part 1 here: https://soundcloud.com/rustysonnets/rusty-sonnets-paradise-lost-book-club-part-1 If you enjoy the podcast you can buy me a coffee via my Ko-Fi page: ko-fi.com/niallosullivan

Rusty Sonnets - Paradise Lost Book Club Part 2

On this week's Rusty Sonnets we look into George Eliot's musing of the selfless "bubble world" in her unpublished poem, I Give You Ample Leave. I then end the podcast by instructing the listener in how to experience Douglas Harding's Headless Way. Are you enjoying Rusty Sonnets? You can support my work by buying me a coffee via my Ko-Fi account: https://ko-fi.com/niallosullivan

Rusty Sonnets #33 - I Give You Ample Leave By George Eliot

This week’s Rusty Sonnets marks the first episode of our monthly Paradise Lost Book Club. Always wanted to read Paradise Lost but felt the great tome was a little bit too daunting? Well, let’s all read it together. We’ll be looking at one book(chapter)every month until we finish with Book 12 in December. If you enjoy the podcast you can buy me a coffee via my Ko-Fi page: https://ko-fi.com/niallosullivan

Rusty Sonnets - Paradise Lost Book Club Part 1

Welcome to our late Christmas episode of Rusty Sonnets! Today we look at the Jesuit martyr Robert Southwell and his nightmarish vision of the spirit of Christmas Day. Yes, I know that Christmas was an eternity ago but it’s not like I’m getting paid for this! Tune in next week for the first monthly instalment of the Paradise Lost Book Club. If you enjoy the podcast you can buy me a coffee via my Ko-Fi page: https://ko-fi.com/niallosullivan

Rusty Sonnets #32 - The Burning Babe By Robert Southwell

In this week’s Rusty Sonnets we look for optimism from a seemingly unexpected source, the pessimistic poet and novelist, Thomas Hardy. 00.00 Intro and background 10.12 Song of Hope by Thomas Hardy 11.19 Analysis 32.04 W.O.O.O!!! If you enjoy the podcast you can buy me a coffee via my Ko-Fi page: https://ko-fi.com/niallosullivan

Rusty Sonnets #31 - Song of Hope by Thomas Hardy

In today’s Rusty Sonnets we ask whether virtue can accompany poverty by visiting the witty, down to earth poetry of Oxford’s first postmistress, Mary Jones. 0.00 Intro and background 07.35 Soliloquy on an Empty Purse by Mary Jones 09.50 Analysis 37.23 W.O.O.O!!!

Rusty Sonnets #30 Soliloquy on an Empty Purse by Mary Jones

Today we look at Manley Hopkins’s sonnet on how wrestling with despair is actually a grapple with God. I then wander off on one about wrestling. 00.00 Intro and Background 20.35 Carrion Comfort by Gerard Manley Hopkins 22.10 Analysis 40.35 WOOOO!!! If you enjoy the podcast you can buy me a coffee via my Ko-Fi page: https://ko-fi.com/niallosullivan

Rusty Sonnets # 29 - Carrion Comfort by Gerard Manley Hopkins

In today’s Rusty Sonnets we look at a tender lament from a famed swashbuckler and explorer who was perhaps more of a wrongun, Sir Walter Raleigh. 00.00 Intro and background 09.53 To his Sonne by Sir Walter Raliegh 10.50 Analysis 21.39 WOOO!!! If you enjoy the podcast you can buy me a coffee via my Ko-Fi page: https://ko-fi.com/niallosullivan

Rusty Sonnets #28 - To His Sonne by Sir Walter Raleigh

This week we look at a lyrical description of a bustling Indian market and ask whether it’s a subtle work of propaganda from one of the central figures of Indian independence, Sarojini Naidu. Intro 00.00 In the Bazaars of Hyderabad by Sarojini Naidu 14.04 Analysis 15.37 W.O.O.O. 32.48

Rusty Sonnets #27 In the Bazaars of Hyderabad by Sarojini Naidu

In this week’s Rusty Sonnets we muse on whether or not we really want more life with Algernon Charles Swinburne’s ode to Mrs Death (who is also little Mrs Springtime), The Garden of Proserpine. If you enjoy the podcast you can buy me a coffee via my Ko-Fi page: https://ko-fi.com/niallosullivan

Rusty Sonnets #26 - The Garden of Proserpine by Algernon Charles Swinburne

After a little break we return with a dip into the multifaceted musings of poet, playwright, novelist, art collector and Modernist salon extraordinaire, Gertrude Stein. Intro and background 00.00 Tender Buttons by Gertrude Stein 21.31 Analysis 29.53 Niall Wanders Off On One....Woooo!!! 52.05

Rusty Sonnets #25 - from Tender Buttons by Gertrude Stein

Today’s Rusty Sonnets looks at Ode to a Nightingale by John Keats, a poem about the unreachable beauties of nature and the failure or deception of the poet in recreating the song of a nightingale. If you enjoy the podcast you can buy me a coffee via my Ko-Fi page: https://ko-fi.com/niallosullivan

Rusty Sonnets #24 - Ode to a Nightingale by John Keats

Every week I grab an old poem, read it out, give it a thorough going over before I " wander off on one..." If you enjoy the podcast you can buy me a coffee via my Ko-Fi page: https://ko-fi.com/niallosullivan

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