A podcast that introduces some of the finest lyric poems in the English language. Focusing on form and sound, Influential Lyrics helps listeners actually hear and appreciate the wisdom and artistry of the language.
Influential Lyrics
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Podcast Overview
A podcast that introduces some of the finest lyric poems in the English language. Focusing on form and sound, Influential Lyrics helps listeners actually hear and appreciate the wisdom and artistry of the language.
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6/19/2025
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June 9, 2026
William Wordsworth's "I wandered lonely as a cloud"
<p class="MsoNormal" style= "margin-bottom: 24.0pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: 2.0gd; text-indent: .5in; line-height: 110%;"> In the previous episode of Influential Lyrics, we considered a famous sonnet in which Wordsworth laments what he sees as a growing alienation from the natural world as people are increasingly caught up in a materialist culture of "getting and spending." That poem, you may recall, concludes with the speaker longing for a more profound and reciprocal relationship with nature, but it doesn't really offer any reason why such a relationship would be so essential to the flourishing of humankind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> The present poem—arguably Wordsworth's most famous—offers an answer to that question.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> In "I wandered lonely as a cloud" (a.k.a. the Daffodil poem), Wordsworth crafts his own experience of a scene of natural beauty into a psychological—perhaps even spiritual—model that demonstrates the sustaining power of an appreciation of natural beauty.<span style= "mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> At 24 lines, the poem is slightly longer than most of the Influential Lyrics offerings, but its short tetrameter lines, its decisive rhyme words, and its simple narrative make it a most memorable poem. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">The present podcast offers a reading of the poem, an explication, and some commentary explaining why this "simple" poem is so significant within its broader historical contexts.</span></p>
May 13, 2026
William Wordsworth's "The world is too much with us"
<p>William Wordsworth (1770-1850), one of the central figures of British Romantic literature, is widely known as a nature poet. He is one of the first writers to develop a sophisticated exploration of the relationship between the natural world and the psychological, perhaps even spiritual flourishing of human beings. This poem in particular is one of Wordsworth's most widely known sonnets, but I've included it here in Influential Lyrics for a particular reason: this poem, together with a lyric called "I wandered lonely as a cloud" which we'll consider in the next episode, will help illustrate a sea-change in much of Western culture that happened in the late 18<sup>th</sup> and early 19<sup>th</sup> centuries and that was a driving force of Romantic period poetry in English and that still echoes through economic, political, and environmental thinking in the 21<sup>st</sup> century. </p>
April 19, 2026
Charlotte Smith's "Written at the Close of Spring"
<p>This episode focuses on a sonnet by Charlotte Smith, one of the best (and certainly one of the most underrated) poets of the late 18th century. The podcast offers a reading of the poem, an explication, and some commentary on the meaning, value, and significance of the work--particularly in light of Smith's own biography, her status as a woman writer, her place in the "Literature of Sensibility," and her historical importance as a catalyst for the Romantic movement of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.</p>
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