A poem challenges us to think both about poetry and about nature:  is nature simpy a material fact that can be understood through scentific materialism, or  are their apects of nature that are unknowable trhough the scientific world view?

Episosde 79: The Wreck of the Hesperus

Each week Dr. J shares a poem from one of the nineteenth-century American Fireside Poets, reading it aloud and commenting on it to enhance the listener’s enjoyment of the poem.