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Apr 2024
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EP18 - The Numb Fingers | Keats, “The Ev...

David Anderson and Eric Williams
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John Keats, “The Eve of St. Agnes” (Part One).  The first of a two-part episode that considers John Keats’ gorgeous poem.  Set in a dreamy medieval world of castles, blood feuds and esoteric folk rituals, Keats gives us a love story with some of the lushest and most opulent imagery in all of English poetry.  However, we begin in a very different atmosphere marked by darkness, death and piercing cold.

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Theme Music: "Nobility" by Wicked Cinema

Opening Segment Music: "At Sea" by In This World

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