30 min
Episode 21: Pope on Man, 17th Century Italian Tough Guys, Hood, Adam Smith, Emerson, Shakespeare's King Lear, and Lessing A Year with Dr. Eliot's Five-Foot Shelf of Books
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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.
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.
30 min