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Currently Playing: My Favorite Novels

A brief personal essay on the novels that shaped my imagination.

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• 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 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