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Read Me a Poem

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

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | July 5, 2022
Maud Is Only Seventeen (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.

Permission required for reprinting, reproducing, or other uses.

Amanda Holmes, the author of the novel I Know Where I Am When I’m Falling, is a book club facilitator for Fairfax County Public Library. Read her book reviews and feature column at the Washington Independent Review of Books.

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