24 episodes
A Year with Dr. Eliot's Five-Foot Shelf of Books Zachary Garrett
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A Year With...is a weekly podcast that explores the "old books" in a spirit of curiosity and discovery.
For 2022, we will be reading selections from the Harvard Classics (also known as Dr. Eliot's Five Foot Shelf of Books), which is an anthology of influential works compiled and published in the early 20th century.
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Episode 24: Spenser, Bhagavad Gita, Plutarch, Plato, Wat Tyler's Rebellion, Byron, and John Eliot
In Episode 24, we engaged with Edmund Spenser’s Epithalamion, the Bhagavad Gita, Plutarch’s Aristides, Plato’s dialogue between Crito and Socrates, an account of the 14th c Wat Tyler’s Rebellion or Peasant’s Revolt, Byron’s haunted play Manfred, and the Narrative of the Puritan John Eliot evangelizing the native Americans of Massachusetts.
About “A Year With”: a weekly podcast where we will learn more about great ideas from our common history – good ideas and bad ideas – by reading together for an entire year. For 2022, we will explore the Harvard Classics, also known as Dr. Eliot’s Five Foot Shelf of Books, a world literature anthology published from 1909 to about 1970. -
Episode 23: Goethe, Adam Smith, Dana, Shakespeare's Hamlet, Woolman, the Psalms, Sophocles
In Episode 23, we engaged with Goethe’s Egmont, Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations, Dana’s travelogue Two Years Before the Mast, Shakespeare’s Hamlet, the Quaker John Woolman’s journal, the Psalms of David, and Sophocles’s Oedipus Rex.
About “A Year With”: a weekly podcast where we will learn more about great ideas from our common history – good ideas and bad ideas – by reading together for an entire year. For 2022, we will explore the Harvard Classics, also known as Dr. Eliot’s Five Foot Shelf of Books, a world literature anthology published from 1909 to about 1970. -
Episode 22: Thomas Moore, the Arabian Nights, Longfellow, Whitman, Marlowe, and more of Shakespeare's King Lear
In Episode 22, we read the Irish writer Thomas Moore, “The Barber’s Fifth Brother” from the Arabian Nights, Longfellow’s The Building of the Ship, Whitman’s preface to Leaves of Grass, Kit Marlowe’s Dr. Faustus, and Shakespeare’s King Lear.
About “A Year With”: a weekly podcast where we will learn more about great ideas from our common history – good ideas and bad ideas – by reading together for an entire year. For 2022, we will explore the Harvard Classics, also known as Dr. Eliot’s Five Foot Shelf of Books, a world literature anthology published from 1909 to about 1970. -
Episode 21: Pope on Man, 17th Century Italian Tough Guys, Hood, Adam Smith, Emerson, Shakespeare's King Lear, and Lessing
In Episode 21, we engaged with Alexander Pope’s Essay on Man, Manzoni’s picture of some 17th century Italian bravi, a tragic poem from Thomas Hood, Adam Smith on money, Emerson’s Heroism, Shakespeare’s King Lear, and Lessing’s The Education of the Human Race.
About “A Year With”: a weekly podcast where we will learn more about great ideas from our common history – good ideas and bad ideas – by reading together for an entire year. For 2022, we will explore the Harvard Classics, also known as Dr. Eliot’s Five Foot Shelf of Books, a world literature anthology published from 1909 to about 1970. -
Episode 20: Jenner's Invention of Vaccines, Dante in Hell, Celtic Stories, Plato, Andersen, Epictetus, and Shakespeare
In Episode 20, we engaged with Edward Jenner’s invention of vaccines, Dante in Hell, Celtic stories, Plato’s apology of Socrates, Andersen, Epictetus, and Shakespeare.
About “A Year With”: a weekly podcast where we will learn more about great ideas from our common history – good ideas and bad ideas – by reading together for an entire year. For 2022, we will explore the Harvard Classics, also known as Dr. Eliot’s Five Foot Shelf of Books, a world literature anthology published from 1909 to about 1970. -
Episode 19: Browning, Sheridan, Schiller, Ralegh, Webster, Rossetti, and Burns
In Episode 19, we read Robert Browning, Sheridan’s A School for Scandal, Friedrich Schiller on Aesthetic Education, Raleigh’s voyage to Guiana in search of El Dorado, Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and a brief mention of Burns’s The Twa Dogs.
About “A Year With”: a weekly podcast where we will learn more about great ideas from our common history – good ideas and bad ideas – by reading together for an entire year. For 2022, we will explore the Harvard Classics, also known as Dr. Eliot’s Five Foot Shelf of Books, a world literature anthology published from 1909 to about 1970.