A podcast that introduces some of the finest lyric poems in the English language. Focusing on form and sound, Influential Lyrics helps listeners actually hear and appreciate the wisdom and artistry of the language.
Required Pod Score for this podcast. PitchCentric checks your profile against host openness, topical fit, and audience signals before you generate a pitch.
Contact path
Verified email
Booking probability
29%
Guest openness
Selective
Sign up to generate a grounded pitch for Influential Lyrics.
Signup to Generate a PitchA podcast that introduces some of the finest lyric poems in the English language. Focusing on form and sound, Influential Lyrics helps listeners actually hear and appreciate the wisdom and artistry of the language.
Influential Lyrics is hosted by Kyle Grimes. The show has published 13 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "William Blake's "The Garden of Love"" (18 October 2026, 15 minutes), "William Blake's "The Lamb"" (21 September 2026, 17 minutes), and "William Wordsworth's "The world is too much with us"" (13 May 2026, 15 minutes).
Influential Lyrics publishes roughly monthly, with episodes averaging 17 minutes across 13 episodes.
Booking probability for Influential Lyrics is 29%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Influential Lyrics requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Influential Lyrics's contact route on record: verified email.
The strongest fits for Influential Lyrics are Artists, Writers & Performers. Influential Lyrics has an arts audience.
Kyle Grimes hosts Influential Lyrics, an arts podcast with 13 episodes published.
Our AI reads these to draft pitches. Use them as grounding for a pitch that cites a real guest and a specific topic.
Episode #13
This is the second in a three-episode set focusing on poems from William Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience, published in 1789 and 1794 respectively. If you haven't had a chance to listen to the previous...
Episode #12
This episode focuses on Blake's poem "The Lamb" from the Songs of Innocence . As usual, the podcast offers a reading of the poem, and explication, and some further commentary about the meaning, value, and significance...
<p>William Wordsworth (1770-1850), one of the central figures of British Romantic literature, is widely known as a nature poet. He is one of the first writers to develop a sophisticated exploration of the relationship...
<p>This episode focuses on a sonnet by Charlotte Smith, one of the best (and certainly one of the most underrated) poets of the late 18th century. The podcast offers a reading of the poem, an explication, and some...
Episode #8
<p>The present podcast is something of a deviation for Influential Lyrics. Rather than focusing on a single, short, self-contained lyric poem, I'll be focusing today on an excerpt from a longer work called Essay on...
<p>This is a seemingly simple, uncomplicated, but intensely religious poem in which the speaker, while lying awake at night, is comforted by a visitation from her Saviour, presumably Jesus, and she rededicates herself...
<p>Richard Lovelace (1618-1657) is not quite so famous as some of the other poets featured here on Influential Lyrics, but his work offers some of the best examples of "Cavalier Poetry"--a mode of writing that came into...
Episode #5
<p>In 1633, one Nicholas Ferrars arranged for the publication of a book written by a close friend who had recently died. The book was called The Temple; Ferrars' friend was a small-town pastor and poet—George...
John Donne's "Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" was probably written to his wife Ann in 1611 when Donne was preparing to travel to the Continent. The poem, however, is much more significant than this very specific...
Episode #3
<p>The 1609 publication of Shakespeare's Sonnets raises several literary-historical questions, many of which remain unresolved, but what we do know is that most of the first 120-some sonnets appear to be addressed to a...
<p>This episode focuses on Sir Thomas Wyatt's early sonnet entitled "The Long Love that in My Thought Doth Harbour." By providing some background knowledge about the "courtly love" tradition and the "conceit" technique...
Episode #1
In 1765, Bishop Thomas Percy published his 3-volume Reliques of Ancient English Poetry. The book introduced a number of late medieval poems into the English literary canon, the most famous of which is the popular ballad...
PitchCentric classifies Influential Lyrics under these industries. Guests from them are the closest fit, and each links to the best podcasts in that industry.
Shows with the most semantically similar episode content. Pitch one, pitch all; producers cluster.
Is this podcast yours and you'd like to remove or correct details? Request removal or email privacy@pitchcentric.com.
Questions about the free trial? See the pricing FAQ
