CR Episode 149: Longfellow and the Civil War, Part II
Nov 7, 2022
01:17:48
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The panel reads two poems from Longfellow's Tales of a Wayside Inn (1863): 'Torquemada' and 'The Birds of Killingworth', examining the role of zeal, dogma, and radical conduct in the poems, and what it may suggest about the war between the states.
