18 min
Episode 24: Spenser, Bhagavad Gita, Plutarch, Plato, Wat Tyler's Rebellion, Byron, and John Eliot A Year with Dr. Eliot's Five-Foot Shelf of Books
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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.
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.
18 min