KWAK Ep 22 - Poetry Part One: Ancient Epics to 18th Century

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We're putting on our powdered wigs and getting ready for high tea this week as we talk about early poetry! Works referenced: The Chimney Sweeper, by William Blake https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43654/the-chimney-sweeper-when-my-mother-died-i-was-very-young Ode on a Grecian Urn, by John Keats https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44477/ode-on-a-grecian-urn Alone with Everybody, by Charles Bukowsky https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/alone-with-everybody/ Knocking or Nothing, by Mary Szybist https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/56661/knocking-or-nothing Alice Isn't Dead: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/part-1-chapter-4-the-factory-by-the-sea/id1088978354?i=1000367098623&mt=2 Song, by John Donne https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44127/song-go-and-catch-a-falling-star The Faerie Queene: Book One, Canto One, by Edmund Spenser https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45192/the-faerie-queene-book-i-canto-i The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43997/the-rime-of-the-ancient-mariner-text-of-1834 And Thou Art Dead, as Young and Fair, by Lord Byron https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43822/and-thou-art-dead-as-young-and-fair Special thanks to Lincoln Peterson for reading Ozymandias, The Rape of the Lock, and The Tyger