Show notes
Welcome back to The Community Library! I’m very excited to bring you this week’s episode, which is all about pop/country icon Taylor Swift and mid-19th-century poet Robert Browning. In this episode I discuss the parallels between Browning’s 1842 poem My Last Duchess and Swift’s 2014 hit Blank Space. I had lots of fun creating this episode, and I hope you enjoy!
Our next discussion pick is The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry!
- Here are links to free audiobook versions:
- The Katherine Woods translation
- The Richard Howard translation
- Some links to things I talked about in the episode:
- My Last Duchess by Robert Browning
- Blank Space by Taylor Swift
- Taylor Swift talking about how and why she wrote Blank Space
- Robert Browning’s Blank Space – British Literature 1700-1900, A Course Blog
- “My Last Duchess” and “Blank Space” – Later English Literature
- @antipodean.books on Instagram
Please visit my website here for a full list of links and notes on what I talked about in this episode, plus a full transcription!