Topics discussed in this episode include:
-The MFA Program at the University of St. Thomas
-My episode on Ryan’s poem “Disobedience”
-"How to Think Like a Poet" by Ryan Wilson
-New editions of Dryden and Pope soon come!
-“The Catholic Writer Today” by Dana Gioia
-David Rothman
-New Verse Review’s St. Thomas issue
-“A Season in Hell” by Arthur Rimbaud
-“Pure and Impure Poetry” by Robert Penn Warren
-The Fugitives, Agrarians, and New Critics
-“The Waste Land” by T.S. Eliot
-“Dante” by T.S. Eliot
-“The World’s Body” by John Crowe Ransom
-“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T.S. Eliot
-“From Ritual to Romance” by Jessie Weston
-“Proteus Bound” by Ryan Wilson
-“El Desdichado” by Gerard de Nerval
-“An Archaic Torso of Apollo” by Rainer Maria Rilke
-Joyce’s “Ulysses” and the mythic method
-Aestheticism and Theophile Gautier
-Negative Capability
-Blake, Picasso, and derangement
-Four Roses whiskey (sponsor me!)
-“Rob Roy,” by Sir Walter Scott
-“For the Highway Medians” by Matthew Buckley Smith
-“To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time” by Robert Herrick
-A hypostatic, moral exegesis of the Odyssey
-The Aeneid as tragedy
-“Imitations” by Robert Lowell
-Plutarch’s “Lives”
-“Annus Mirabilis” by John Dryden
-Dryden vs. Pope
-Pope’s “Ode On Solitude” and “Essay On Man”
-“Heorot” by Ryan Wilson
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My favorite poetry podcasts for:
Sharp thoughts and cutting truths (Matthew): Sleerickets
Lovely introspection and sensitive reflection (Alice): Poetry Says
The landscape of Ohioan poetry (Jeremy): Poetry Spotlight
Supported in part by The Ohio Poetry Association
Art by David Anthony Klug
List of the most common metrical feet:
Iamb: weak-STRONG (u /)
Trochee: STRONG-weak (/ u)
Anapest: weak-weak-STRONG (u u /)
Amphibrach: weak-STRONG-weak (u / u)
Dactyl: STRONG-weak-weak (/ u u)
Cretic: STRONG-weak-STRONG (/ u /)
Pyrrhic: weak-weak (u u)
Spondee: STRONG-STRONG (/ /)
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