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An episode from 3/3/24: Tonight, I read from a handful of what I call \u201cvisionary\u201d poems. After an introductory section of familiar nineteenth- and twentieth-century poets, I go back to the sources of those, which are found in religious scripture and myth:

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• W. B. Yeats: \u201cThe Second Coming\u201d
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• T. S. Eliot: sections from The Waste Land and \u201cEast Coker\u201d
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• Walt Whitman: the first section of \u201cCrossing Brooklyn Ferry\u201d
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• William Wordsworth: from the thirteenth book of The Prelude
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• William Blake: from his long poem Milton
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• The first chapter of Ezekiel (from the JPS audio Tanakh)
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• A speech from Euripides\u2019s Bacchae, tr. William Arrowsmith
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• Part of the eleventh book of the Bhagavad-Gita, tr. by Amit Majmudar in his Godsong
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• I close the episode with a reading that will not surprise long-time listeners.
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