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A Year with Dr. Eliot's Five-Foot Shelf of Books

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A Year With...is a weekly podcast that explores the "old books" in a spirit of curiosity and discovery. For 2022, we will be reading selections from the Harvard Classics (also known as Dr. Eliot's Five Foot Shelf of Books), which is an anthology of influential works compiled and published in the early 20th century.

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Episode thumbnail for Episode 24: Spenser, Bhagavad Gita, Plutarch, Plato, Wat Tyler's Rebellion, Byron, and John Eliot

June 19, 2022

Episode 24: Spenser, Bhagavad Gita, Plutarch, Plato, Wat Tyler's Rebellion, Byron, and John Eliot

<p>In Episode 24, we engaged with Edmund Spenser’s Epithalamion, the Bhagavad Gita, Plutarch’s Aristides, Plato’s dialogue between Crito and Socrates, an account of the 14th c Wat Tyler’s Rebellion or Peasant’s Revolt, Byron’s haunted play Manfred, and the Narrative of the Puritan John Eliot evangelizing the native Americans of Massachusetts.&nbsp;</p> <p>About “A Year With”: a weekly podcast where we will learn more about great ideas from our common history – good ideas and bad ideas – by reading together for an entire year. For 2022, we will explore the Harvard Classics, also known as Dr. Eliot’s Five Foot Shelf of Books, a world literature anthology published from 1909 to about 1970.</p>

Episode thumbnail for Episode 23: Goethe, Adam Smith, Dana, Shakespeare's Hamlet, Woolman, the Psalms, Sophocles

June 12, 2022

Episode 23: Goethe, Adam Smith, Dana, Shakespeare's Hamlet, Woolman, the Psalms, Sophocles

<p>In Episode 23, we engaged with Goethe’s Egmont, Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations, Dana’s travelogue Two Years Before the Mast, Shakespeare’s Hamlet, the Quaker John Woolman’s journal, the Psalms of David, and Sophocles’s Oedipus Rex.&nbsp;</p> <p>About “A Year With”: a weekly podcast where we will learn more about great ideas from our common history – good ideas and bad ideas – by reading together for an entire year. For 2022, we will explore the Harvard Classics, also known as Dr. Eliot’s Five Foot Shelf of Books, a world literature anthology published from 1909 to about 1970.</p> <p><br></p>

Episode thumbnail for Episode 22: Thomas Moore, the Arabian Nights, Longfellow, Whitman, Marlowe, and more of Shakespeare's King Lear

June 5, 2022

Episode 22: Thomas Moore, the Arabian Nights, Longfellow, Whitman, Marlowe, and more of Shakespeare's King Lear

<p>In Episode 22, we read the Irish writer Thomas Moore, “The Barber’s Fifth Brother” from the Arabian Nights, Longfellow’s The Building of the Ship, Whitman’s preface to Leaves of Grass, Kit Marlowe’s Dr. Faustus, and Shakespeare’s King Lear.</p> <p>About “A Year With”: a weekly podcast where we will learn more about great ideas from our common history – good ideas and bad ideas – by reading together for an entire year. For 2022, we will explore the Harvard Classics, also known as Dr. Eliot’s Five Foot Shelf of Books, a world literature anthology published from 1909 to about 1970.</p>

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What is A Year with Dr. Eliot's Five-Foot Shelf of Books?

A Year With...is a weekly podcast that explores the "old books" in a spirit of curiosity and discovery.

For 2022, we will be reading selections from the Harvard Classics (also known as Dr. Eliot's Five Foot Shelf of Books), which is an anthology of influential works compiled and published in the early 20th century.

How often does this podcast release new episodes?

This podcast updates daily.

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