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Hello today on the podcast.

Eileen Sperry of Skidmore College tells us how the lyric poetry of the early modern period shaped our understanding of mortality.

And speaking of mortality, a set of bones discovered under a collapsed church floor in the

Netherlands might be a famous literary figure.

We will hear Chekhov's advice for how to deal with jealousy, and Bruce Gordon, a biblical

scholar, will deliver his choice for the last book he will ever read.

It might surprise you.

That's all coming up today on the history of literature.

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I'm Jack Wilson.

It all began when a floor collapsed in an old church

in the Dutch city of Maastricht. Workers were brought in to repair the place, and they found

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