Episode 425: Lord Commander Stryker of Lord of the Hobbits

Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather remember their favorite moments of the 2016 Olympics in Rio, wonder what Jon Snow is doing in an Infinity commercial, deliver a solid undergraduate poetry survey lecture on meter and prosody, and delve in to the sexy-dangerous capital-R Romanticism of William Blake’s The Tyger.

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Your Panel

• Peter Fenzel: @fenzelian
• Mark Lee: @goestotwelve
• Matthew Wrather: @mwrather

Further Reading

• Claressa Shields
• At Rio Olympics, the National Anthem Sounds … Sad?
• Simone Biles’ Vault
• William Blake: Songs of Innocence and of Experience (text)