Read Me a Poem

A Very Specific Excerpt from “Maud” by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | July 5, 2022
<em>Maud Is Only Seventeen</em> (1919) by Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale
Maud Is Only Seventeen (1919) by Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale

Amanda Holmes reads the eighth stanza of the eighteenth part of “Maud,” by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Have a suggestion for a poem by a (dead) writer? Email us: podcast@theamericanscholar.org. If we select your entry, you’ll win a copy of a poetry collection edited by David Lehman.

This episode was produced by Stephanie Bastek and features the song “Canvasback” by Chad Crouch.

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Amanda Holmes, the author of the novel I Know Where I Am When I’m Falling, is a columnist and poetry editor for the Washington Independent Review of Books.

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