33. ‘She Walks in Beauty’ by Lord Byron with Mark Saunders: "No One Should Tell You How You Should Interpret Poetry!" cover art

33. ‘She Walks in Beauty’ by Lord Byron with Mark Saunders: "No One Should Tell You How You Should Interpret Poetry!"

33. ‘She Walks in Beauty’ by Lord Byron with Mark Saunders: "No One Should Tell You How You Should Interpret Poetry!"

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In this episode of Elixir, Helen is talking to Mark Saunders, a writer and broadcaster, about ‘She Walks in Beauty’ by Lord Byron (1788—1824)


Topics:

  • Physical & inner beauty
  • Beauty in the world around us
  • How Poetry got Mark into reading books
  • No one should tell you how you should interpret Shakespeare, any book, or poetry
  • Classism in the arts
  • Poets are the primary victims in times of oppression - the power of the written word
  • Mark reads the poem again after you’ve heard his context with music set to it


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