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  • Ep: 51 - To Night (Percy Bysshe Shelley)
    2025/06/11

    Dominic reads Shelley's 'To Night'. Hope you enjoy the poem! The word of the day is Damask.


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    Introduction: 00:00

    Word of the day (damask): 00:22

    Commentary on odes: 00:52

    The poem in full: 02:11

    Further reading recommendations: 04:17

    Up next on The Dominic Tapes Poetry Redefined: 05:24


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  • Ep: 50 - In Memory of W. B. Yeats (W. H. Auden)
    2025/06/04

    Dominic reads W. H. Auden's 'In Memory of W. B. Yeats ' as requested by Joe Smith.

    Hope you all enjoy the poem!


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    The music is 'Lazarus', from Dominic's 2021 solo piano album 'Songs for John'. All rights reserved to the artist.


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    Introduction 00:00

    Welcome to episode fifty: 00:13

    Word of the day (Bourse): 01:00

    Background on W. H. Auden: 01:38

    The poem in full: 04:46

    Further reading recommendations: 09:21

    Up next on The Dominic Tapes, Poetry Redefined: 10:51


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    #Auden #WHAuden #WBYeats #NP #Spotifypoems #Applepodcast #amazonmusic #Audible #Amazonaudible #podcast #follow #indiepod #poetry #poems #Irish #English #eulogy #requested #dedication #noun #parisstockexchange #new #upload #Yeats #Auden #Amazingpoetry #Death #Life #Love #Respect


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  • Ep: 49 - Sonnet 43: How do I Love Thee? (Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
    2025/05/28

    Dominic reads Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Sonnet no. 43! Hope you enjoy it!


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    The music is 'Lazarus' from Dominic's 2021 solo piano album 'Songs for John'. All rights reserved to the artist.


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    Introduction: 00:00

    Word of the day (valorous): 00:19

    Background of EBB: 00:37

    The poem in full: 05:13

    Further reading recommendations: 06:38

    Up next on The Dominic Tapes, Poetry Redefined: 07:59


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    #EBB #BarretBrowning #np #newupload #Browning #poetry #Woolf #OWC #OUP #UpNext #Romanticpoetry #poems #Poetrycommunity #Indiepods #newpost #spotifypoetry

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    9 分
  • Ep: 48 - She Walks in Beauty (Lord Byron)
    2025/05/21

    Dominic reads Lord Byron's romantic poem, 'She walks in Beauty'.


    The word of the day is: Tress


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    The music is 'Lazarus' from Dominic's 2021 piano album 'Songs for John'. All rights reserved.


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    Introduction: 00:00

    Word of the day (Tress): 00:14

    Notes on the poem: 00:36

    The poem in full: 03:09

    Further reading recommendations: 04:35

    Review of the podcast: 07:26

    Up next on The Dominic Tapes Poetry Redefined: 08:48


    ****#Byron #LordByron #Romantics #poetry #findpoems #np #indiepod #supportindie #follow #Love #newep #poetrycommunity #poemsspotify #spotifypoems #discoverpoetry #classics

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    9 分
  • Ep: 47 - Toads (Philip Larkin)
    2025/05/14

    Dominic reads Larkin's sardonic, witty, and luminous poem, Toads. Enjoy!


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    Music is 'Lazarus' from Dominic's 2021 piano album 'Songs for John' All rights reserved to the artist.


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    #Larkin #poetry #Spotifypoems #theotherLaureate #Coventry #Midlandspoetry #Hull #Dublin #Oxford #Whitsunweddings #Highwindows #np #toolsofpoetry #discoverpoetry #lovepoetry #bio #read #amreading #poemsforall #spotifypod #indiepod #poems #follow #rate #comment #review #PhilipLarkin #toads #toadsrevisted #larkinian


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    Introduction and thanks: 00:00

    Word of the day (Elusive): 00:38

    Background on Philip Larkin: 00:54

    Quick note on the poem: 04:16

    The Poem in full: 05:15

    Further reading and recommendations: 07:03

    Up next on The Dominic Tapes Poetry Redefined: 07:58 ****

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    9 分
  • Ep: 46 - Sweeney among the Nightingales (T. S. Eliot)
    2025/05/07

    Dominic reads and delves into T. S. Eliot's 'Sweeney among the nightingales'

    Enjoy!


    Music is 'Lazarus' from Dominic's 2021 piano album 'Songs for John ' all rights reserved.


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    #TSEliot #eliot #modernists #crow #raven #lines #poems #poetry #agamemnon #greek #classics #poetry #mortalblow #Aeschylus
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    Chapters:

    Intro: 00:00

    Podcast expansion: 00:45

    Word of the day: 02:45

    T.S Eliot's background: 03:06

    Related to the poem : 05:29

    Line-by-line analysis: 09:16

    The poem in full: 28:49

    What are your thoughts on the poem? : 30:57

    Further reading recommendations: 32:06

    Up next on The Dominic Tapes: 34:57

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    35 分
  • Ep: 45 - Porphyria's Lover (Robert Browning)
    2025/04/30

    Dominic reads and explores Browning's masterful and disturbing dramatic monologue, Porphyria's Lover.


    Word of the day: Idoneous, meaning 'appropriate'.



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    Music used is Dominic's 'Lazarus' from his 2021 piano album 'Songs for John.' All rights reserved. Copyright.



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    #NP #poetry #Browning #upload #Porphyria #EBB #RB #Wilde #Macbeth #Victorianpoetry #London #Newpost #indiepoetrypod #TDT #Coleridge #Shakespeare #spotifypoems


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    (00:00) Introduction

    (00:25) The Macbeth Curse

    (02:13) Improvements to the podcast

    (03:41) Word of the day - Idoneous

    (04:05) Trigger warning!

    (04:20) We're back to the Victorian poets again

    (04:44) A brief history of Browning

    (06:34) Opinions on Browning's poetry by the modernists

    (07:12) A murderous poem/monologue

    (07:46) Theories abound!

    (09:34) More analysis...the symbolic nature of purple

    (10:14) Theological connections

    (12:57) Romanticism and the 'sublime'

    (14:16) Alterations to the title

    (14:36) Following Wilde, we return to another scene of parricide!

    (15:05) Further analysis

    (17:11) Epizeuxis

    (18:38) Social class...

    (20:19) Infantile...doll-like

    (20:46) Posing questions and introducing mysteries

    (21:06) The man from Porlock returns!

    (21:58) The Poem in full

    (26:18) Starting a new thing

    (26:33) Further recommended reading

    (27:03) Up next on The Dominic Tapes!















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    28 分
  • Ep: 44 - Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow (Macbeth's Final Soliloquy, William Shakespeare)
    2025/04/23

    Dominic reads some Shakespeare on the Bard's birthday!

    Please consider commenting, rating, and sharing the podcast with likeminded friends!


    (0:00) Introduction

    (0:20) Shakespeare on the podcast

    (1:56) Macbeth's struggles

    (5:37) (Word/phrase of the day is: Walking Gentleman - A player who generally steps in to play the meagre roles in a theatre company (archaic).

    (6:09) More detail

    (6:31) McKellen's last word of every line within the soliloquy

    (7:58) The soliloquy in full


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    Music is 'Lazarus' by Dominic Mason, from the piano album 'Songs for John.' All rights reserved. 2021.



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    #Shakespeare #TheBard #BardofAvon #SUA #Stratford #StratforduponAvon #np #Macbeth #Soliloquy #Tragedies #Poetry #Plays #Playwrights #poetrycomm #prophecy #WilliamShakespeare #LadyMacbeth


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    9 分