1.9 What Taylor Swift and Robert Browning Have in Common

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Welcome back to The Community Library! I’m very excited to bring you this week’s episode, which is all about pop/country icon Taylor Swift and mid-19th-century poet Robert Browning. In this episode I discuss the parallels between Browning’s 1842 poem My Last Duchess and Swift’s 2014 hit Blank Space. I had lots of fun creating this episode, and I hope you enjoy!

Listen to the episode here

Download the full transcription here

Our next discussion pick is The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry!

Here are links to free audiobook versions:

Some links to things I talked about in the episode:

Other books mentioned:

Further resources:

  • #poetry by Ariel Bissett – a documentary that asks the question: “Can Instagram make poetry cool again?”

Note: Unfortunately I couldn’t find a free online version of Robert Langbaum’s paper, however I believe it is printed in Robert Browning’s Poetry, Norton Critical Edition (Second Edition). The paper I talked about is: The Dramatic Monologue: Sympathy vs. Judgement by Robert Langbaum (1957).

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