Audio from the Archive: Taylor Swift's "The Lakes" Gets Romantic
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And because we’re still on all things Taylor Swift in the wake of her eleventh studio album, The Tortured Poets Department, the first audio voiceover I’m making available is a recording of my article on Swift’s “The Lakes,” in which the singer references Romantic poetry and makes a pun out of one of the era’s most well-known poets.
Click the link at the top of this article to listen to the audio voiceover or read the article below (the original page has been updated with the new voiceover, too):
Taylor Swift's "The Lakes" Gets Romantic (Poetry, That Is)
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