6 Poets Tolkien Fans Should Read

Tolkien’s Poetry & Otherworlds | Close Reading

The Ritual Roots of Shakespeare

How to Read The Lord of the Rings | Tolkien’s Poetics of Enchantment | Lecture 13 (part 1/2)

The Theological Aesthetics of Gerard Manley Hopkins | Lecture 12

We're Finally Studying Shakespeare (New Course!)

George MacDonald's Phantastes | Lecture 11

Emily Dickinson and the Calling of the Visionary Poet | Lect. 10

Tolkien and his Critics | Is LOTR good literature?

Can Poetry Save the World? | The Radical Vision of Lyrical Ballads (Part 2)

Lyrical Ballads & the Revolution of Romantic Poetry (Part 1) | Lecture 9

Margaret Cavendish’s The Blazing World | From Romance to Rationalism | Lecture 8

The Limits of Academic Reading

Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale | Enchantment after the Reformation?| Lecture 7

How to Read The Faerie Queene | Faith & Vision in Book 1 | Lecture 6

Why Is It Called The Waste Land? | The Myth Behind the Title

How Julian of Norwich described her Visions | Lecture 5

Why Did Eliot Write The Waste Land? | Eliot's Personal Collapse

The Fall of King Arthur: Why Le Morte Darthur Still Enchants Us | Lecture 4

Is Modernism Really New? | Close Reading The Waste Land

Celtic Literature & John Scotus Eriugena’s Vision of Nature | Lecture 3

The Waste Land in Slow Motion | New Course April 2025

Reading John's Gospel as Visionary Literature | Lecture 2

Philosophy & Enchantment: Understanding Plato's Allegory of the Cave | Lecture 1

The Work of Poets in the 21st Century? | Q&A #3

Art and the Artist | A Crash Course on Criticism | Q#2

The Apocrypha and its Influence on Literature | Q&A #1 | 2025

The Bible and English Poetry 2025

George MacDonald and the 'Otherworld' | The Poetics of Enchantment 2025

New Course! The Poetics of Enchantment (2025) | The Visionary Tradition