Two friends and academics recap classic literature and take it off its pedestal. In our eighty-second episode, we start a weekly, month-long miniseries on short narrative poems, beginning with Alexander Pope's 1714 mock-epic, 'The Rape of the Lock'. Daniel is determined to not have wig-face, both our hosts share childhood hair-cutting trauma, and we learn that this is where fairies with wings comes from!
Cover art © Catherine Wu.
Episode Theme: Vivaldi, Concerto in D Major 1. 'Allegro'.
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