A Verse Reaction
A Verse Reaction is a poetry podcast with Dr. Ann Beebe, Professor of English at The University of Texas at Tyler. Series One includes episodes on the poetry of Emily Dickinson, Anne Bradstreet, Phillis Wheatley, Langston Hughes, Robert Frost, Robert Lowell, Lucille Clifton, and Mary Oliver. Episodes include interviews with subject-area experts in the fields of Civil War history, Puritanism, Economics, Jazz, Math & Meter, Portrait Painting, Civil Rights, and Birds.
A Verse Reaction
3 - Anne Bradstreet & American Puritanism
Episode Summary: Dr. Beebe interviews Dr. Greg Bock about Seventeenth-Century American Puritanism. She then applies this context to four poems by Anne Bradstreet: “Some Verse Upon the Burning of Our House,” “As Weary Pilgrim,” “To My Dear and Loving Husband,” and “The Prologue.”
Part 1 (Biography & Overview) Starts: 00.00
Part 2 (Interview with Dr. Greg Bock) Starts: 21:01
Part 3 (Four Poems) Starts: 32:23
Dr. Beebe’s LinkedIn URL: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ann-beebe
Emily Dickinson: A Companion: https://mcfarlandbooks.com/product/emily-dickinson/
Dr. Gregory L. Bock, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Religion, is the Director of the Center for Ethics at UT Tyler. His research areas include bioethics and the philosophy of forgiveness.
The Ethics of Anger https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781793615176/The-Ethics-of-Anger
The Philosophy of Forgiveness Volume 4 https://vernonpress.com/book/507
Resources:
Dame Judi Dench – William Shakespeare’s “When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_0VBS9AOhE
Bradstreet, Anne (Jeannine Hensley, ed). The Works of Anne Bradstreet. Belknap at Harvard, 1967.
St. Botolph’s Church (Boston, Lincolnshire) – Stained Glass window image of Anne Bradstreet - https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4286574
Bradstreet Gate at Harvard University - https://harvardplanning.emuseum.com/sites/2007/bradstreet-gate
1655 Map of Andover, MA - https://www.northandoverhistoricalsociety.org/european-settlement
