Uploads from Adam Walker - Close Reading Poetry
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- Joyce's Notes for Ulysses
- The Rise of a New Censorship in American Universities
- My Favorite Novels
- Digital Detox with Rilke
- How Emerson Became the Father of American Literature
- How AI Took Over Our Writing
- Rilke and The Poetry of Things
- The Empress (for artists) | The Symbolic Imagination: Tarot & Literature
- The Story of American Literature in an Hour
- The Bhagavad Gita and the American Imagination
- Thoreau's Canon of Transcendentalism
- The Fool | Tarot & Literature | Lecture 0
- Close Reading Emerson's "Nature" | Prose Analysis!
- How to Plan a Renaissance
- How poetry is different from prose
- The Friendship that Changed English Poetry
- The Symbolic Imagination | Literature through The Major Arcana
- The Sublime Explained (from Longinus to Kant)
- How Poetry Becomes Music | "Burnt Norton" Eliot's Four Quartets
- How our creativity was stolen
- The Deeper Crisis of Modernism
- The Hidden Structure of T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets
- My Harvard Dissertation | Spiritual Poetics
- Not Just a Cultural Decline
- William Blake Can Change Your Life | with Dr. Mark Vernon
- Basho and the Art of the Haiku | Lecture on Nature, Seasons, and Imagery | Close Reading
- AE Housman's Pacifist Poem
- James Joyce wrote poetry, too
- Self-Learners in the New Renaissance
- The Haiku of Bashō | New Course!
- The Iliad for Self-Learners
- William Blake on the Imagination
- 7 Signs of the New Renaissance
- Sense & Sensibility | Chapter 1-6 Lecture | Austen, Free Indirect Discourse, the Dashwood Sisters
- Becoming Visionary with William Blake | New Course!
- The Complete English Reading List
- Are We in a New Dark Age?
- Jane Austen's Favorite Poets
- The Age of Closed Circles
- The Theme for my 2026 Courses
- True Love in Chaucer's "The Franklin's Tale"
- William Blake and the Imagination | Interview with Mark Vernon
- Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility | December Course
- The Decline of the English Department
- The Writer's Life | Lectures and Workshops by Śivani Howe
- How to find your voice as a poet
- Poetry as Spiritual Practice | Beyond "Analysis"
- Intro to Beowulf | Excerpt from Lecture 1
- Medieval Literature for Self-Learners
- The New Renaissance is Coming
- Medieval Romance | The Breton Lays (New Course)
- A World without the Humanities
- Study Mary Oliver (new course)
- Don't Start with "Easy" Poets
- Getting a Humanities PhD Today
- Rainer Maria Rilke's Spiritual Poetics
- 3 Poems for your Autumn Reading
- Literary Critics (who are fun to read)
- Why I Left Harvard
- What Makes Shelley's "Ozymandias" a Good Poem? | Close Reading
- 5 Translations, Beowulf from Tolkien to our times
- Study Beowulf (as POETRY) | October Course
- How to Build a Literature Library (on a budget)
- Universities are Killing the Humanities
- The Rhetoric of Milton's Satan | A Rhetorical Analysis
- The 6 Hardest Poets
- Lectures on Rhetoric | "Rhetoric as a Way of Life"
- The Danger and Value of Literary Theory
- Literary Theory & Criticism Course | Visiting Professor on Versed~
- The Value of the Humanities and Literature
- Study Rhetoric (without a degree) | 5 Books for the Self-Learner
- How to read poetry
- How to Take Notes like a Literature PhD | from Commonplace Book to Encyclopedia
- Literary Patterns in The Bible | Typology in English and American Poetry
- W.B. Yeats and Romanticism
- AI and the Demise of College Writing
- Reading ALL of W.B. Yeats | Five Weeks of Deeply Reading
- What Auden's Students Read in 1941
- The Academic in the Digital Age | Where Universities Went Wrong
- 6 Poets Tolkien Fans Should Read
- Tolkien’s Poetry & Otherworlds | Close Reading
- The Ritual Roots of Shakespeare
- How to Read The Lord of the Rings | Tolkien’s Poetics of Enchantment | Lecture 13 (part 1/2)
- The Theological Aesthetics of Gerard Manley Hopkins | Lecture 12
- We're Finally Studying Shakespeare (New Course!)
- George MacDonald's Phantastes | Lecture 11
- Emily Dickinson and the Calling of the Visionary Poet | Lect. 10
- Tolkien and his Critics | Is LOTR good literature?
- Can Poetry Save the World? | The Radical Vision of Lyrical Ballads (Part 2)
- Lyrical Ballads & the Revolution of Romantic Poetry (Part 1) | Lecture 9
- Margaret Cavendish’s The Blazing World | From Romance to Rationalism | Lecture 8
- The Limits of Academic Reading
- Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale | Enchantment after the Reformation?| Lecture 7
- How to Read The Faerie Queene | Faith & Vision in Book 1 | Lecture 6
- Why Is It Called The Waste Land? | The Myth Behind the Title
- How Julian of Norwich described her Visions | Lecture 5
- Robert Frost's The Oven-Bird | What to make of a diminished thing #poetry
- Why Did Eliot Write The Waste Land? | Eliot's Personal Collapse
- The Most Misunderstood Poem? | The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost
- The Fall of King Arthur: Why Le Morte Darthur Still Enchants Us | Lecture 4