14 min
Episode 19: Browning, Sheridan, Schiller, Ralegh, Webster, Rossetti, and Burns A Year with Dr. Eliot's Five-Foot Shelf of Books
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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.
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.
14 min