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Our 2027 Reading List
The End of Postmodernism and The New Renaissance (4 arguments)
Did Universities Lose the Reading Public? ft. Charlie Tyson
Are Literature Professors Marxist?
A Renaissance Scholar on Why Spenser Still Matters ft. ⁨@therenaissanceacademic⁩
How to Read The Faerie Queene Like a Professor
Being Spiritually Homeless in Modernity ft. Ian Corbin
6 Books to Study Edmund Spenser (on your own)
Student needs ChatGPT to think for them
Why Universities no Longer Teach The Faerie Queene
Students Can't Write 100 Words?
6 Books to Study Romanticism (without a degree)
Students need TikTok in class to concentrate
Why Students can No Longer Read ft. Carlos Gonzalez
Reading Byron Like a Professor (Childe Harold)
What Lord Byron Read as a Student (History, Philosophy, Theology, Novels, etc.)
Origins of Romantic Solitude
What the Oldest Literary Text Tells us About Literature
How Do Renaissance Moments Happen?
Is the Renaissance Coming Back? | ft. David Fideler
What Comes After the End of Reading?
The Hermit Archetype in Literature
Page 1 of Ulysses -- A Close Reading
Recover Your Symbolic Literacy
Thoreau's Sentences
Ulysses is not hard
What I learned teaching literature for 10 years
Joyce's Ulysses: A Reader's Guide
Introduction to Frederick Douglass | What to the Slave is the 4th of July?
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 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