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The Literary Life Podcast

Not just book chat! The Literary Life Podcast is an ongoing conversation about the skill and art of reading well and the lost intellectual tradition needed to fully enter into the great works of literature.

Experienced teachers Angelina Stanford and Thomas Banks (of www.HouseOfHumaneLetters.com) join lifelong reader Cindy Rollins (of www.MorningtimeForMoms.com) for slow reads of classic literature, conversations with book lovers, and an ever-unfolding discussion of how Stories Will Save the World.

And check out our sister podcast The Well Read Poem with poet Thomas Banks.

Copyright: ©Cindy Rollins 2019

Latest Episodes:

What is the Literary Life? Apr 21, 2019

Show notes

Today's Book List:

(affiliate links)

An Experiment in Criticism by C.S. Lewis
The Children's Homer, The Golden Fleece, The Stone of Victory, and other Tales by Padraic Colum
For the Children's Sake by Susan Schaeffer Macaulay
Mutliple novels by Elizabeth Gaskell
Leisure: The Basis of Culture by Joseph Pieper
Gaudy Night by Dorothy Sayers

Find out more about our sponsor, New College Franklin at https://newcollegefranklin.org/

Connect with us!

Find Angelina at https://angelinastanford.com and on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/ANGStanford/

Find Cindy at https://cindyrollins.net and on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/cindyrollins.net/

Jump into our private Facebook group, The Literary Life Discussion Group, and let's get the book talk going! http://bit.ly/literarylifeFB

Today's poem:

The Truisms by Louis MacNeice

His father gave him a box of truisms

Shaped like a coffin, then his father died;

The truisms remained on the mantlepiece

As wooden as the play box they had been packed in

Or that his father skulked inside.

Then he left home, left the truisms behind him

Still on the mantlepiece, met love, met war,

Sordor, disappointment, defeat, betrayal,

Till through disbeliefs he arrived at a house

He could not remember seeing before.

And he walked straight in; it was where he had come from

And something told him the way to behave.

He raised his hand and blessed his home;

The truisms flew and perched on his shoulders

And a tall tree sprouted from his father's grave.

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