Episode 283: Catching Up with Jason Baxter – Dante, Teacher as Translator, Learning to Read Poetry, and Hot Takes

The Literary Life Podcast

Angelina Stanford

Education, Selfeducation, Classicaleducation, Reading, Literature, Homeschool, Arts, Books, Charlottemason, Homeeducation, Homeschooling

4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2025

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

This week on The Literary Life Podcast, Angelina and Thomas are once again joined Dr. Jason Baxter, author of Why Literature Still Matters. In this episode, our hosts sit down with Dr. Baxter for a chat about a wide variety of topics, including teaching the old books, reading poetry to understand it, the delight of teaching students at HHL, their hot takes on hot takes, making reading recommendations, and translating Dante, and so much more. We will be back next week with a "best of" episode covering Katherine Mansfield's short story "The Garden Party," and after that we begin a fun new series on The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling.

To view the full show notes for this episode, please visit our website at https://theliterary.life/283.

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0:00.0	This is not just another book chat podcast.
0:21.6	Lifelong reader Cindy Rollins joins teachers Angelina Stanford and Thomas Banks for an ongoing conversation about the skill and art of reading well.
0:32.6	Explore the lost intellectual tradition and discover how to fully enter end to the great works of literature.
0:40.2	Learn what books mean while delighting in the sheer joy of imagination. Each week, we will rescue
0:47.1	story from the ivory tower and bring it to your couch, your kitchen, and your commute. The literary life is for everyone because in the
0:55.9	words of Stratford Caldecott, to be enchanted by story is to be granted a deeper insight into
1:02.2	reality. Join us for an ever-unfolding discussion of how stories will save the world.
1:09.7	This is the Literary Life Podcast.
1:30.4	Welcome back to the Literary Life podcast.
1:36.3	I'm Angelina Stanford, and here with me today is not just the mysterious Mr. Banks.
1:38.3	Though I'm here as well. But the semi-transparent Jason Baxter.
1:42.8	Much less impressive.
1:46.1	Would you like me to make you?
1:47.8	The opaque, the opaque, Jason Baxter.
1:50.4	Is that better?
1:51.1	The obscure.
1:52.3	The obscure.
1:53.2	Jason, the obscure.
1:54.3	See, I feel like that could be, we're now veering into Hardy.
1:57.3	We're 30 seconds into this podcast.
1:58.9	We went very dark.
1:59.8	All right.
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