Jan. 19, 2026

Pelé’s Poetry Podcast: Episode 3 – What is poetry’s purpose?

Pelé’s Poetry Podcast: Episode 3 – What is poetry’s purpose?
Pelé’s Poetry Podcast: Episode 3 – What is poetry’s purpose?
Pelé's Poetry Podcast
Pelé’s Poetry Podcast: Episode 3 – What is poetry’s purpose?

Pele Cox and her co-host Rich Uridge ask: what is the purpose of poetry? With the help of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sir Philip Sidney and Sir Thomas Wyatt, they conclude that, in part, poetry’s job is to move readers to virtuous action or “well doing and not well knowing only” as Sidney put it. Along […]

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