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Sherds Podcast

Sherds Podcast is a journey through the outskirts of literary history. Each episode, we take an in-depth look at a lesser-known literary text and attempt to give it the critical attention it deserves: books that are criminally overlooked, have struggled to reach an anglophone audience, or are just downright odd. Hosted by Sam Pulham and Rob Prouse.

#6 Et in Arcadia Ego by Tadeusz Różewicz

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In this episode, I'm joined by Stefan Głowacki to discuss Tadeusz Różewicz's long poem 'Et in Arcadia Ego' (1961).   Over the course of the episode, we consider how the  poem might be thought of as Różewicz's idiosyncratic "Italian Journey", written in response not only to Goethe's text, but as an attempt to confront the ghosts of classicism, a journey undertaken to see if the ideals of Western art can still be found among the wreckage of postwar Europe.

We also look at Rózewicz's attempts to construct new poetic forms to reflect the postwar experience, his exstensive use of ekphrasis, as well as aspects of his work that seem to be in dialogue with the anglophone poets T. S. Eliot and Wallace Stevens. 

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