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Versecraft

By: Elijah Perseus Blumov
  • Summary

  • Exploring the art of poetry through the craft of some of the world's best but most underrated poems.
    © 2024 Versecraft
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Episodes
  • A Lover's Quarrel with Robert Frost
    Jul 16 2024

    Soundtrack to this episode

    Topics discussed in this episode include:

    -The Beatles
    -Beatles documentary "Get Back"
    -"The Other Frost" by Randall Jarrell
    -"Robert Frost: or, the Spiritual Drifter as Poet" by Yvor Winters
    -"The Other Other Frost" by William Logan
    -"The Themes of Robert Frost" by Robert Penn Warren
    -"A History of Modern Poetry" by David Perkins
    -Phalaecian hendacasyllabics
    -Catullus I
    -Plato's "Symposium"

    Frost poems mentioned/discussed:
    -The Road Not Taken
    -Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
    -Mending Wall
    -Fire and Ice
    -Nothing Gold Can Stay
    -For Once, Then, Something
    -Design
    -Mowing
    -After Apple-Picking
    -Birches
    -The Most of It
    -The Silken Tent
    -Come In
    -Neither Out Far Nor In Deep
    -To a Moth Seen in Winter
    -Home Burial

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    TikTok: @versecraft
    Send me a note at: versecraftpodcast@gmail.com

    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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    40 mins
  • Guardians of Matter: Timothy Steele's "Anima" and the Pathetic Fallacy
    Jul 3 2024

    Soundtrack to this episode

    For text of poem, please see episode transcript at versecraft.buzzsprout.com.

    Topics discussed in this episode include:

    -C'est Moi, MBS's response to my episode Giving the Devil His Due

    -My review of Matthew's book, "Midlife," entitled The Poet Laureate of Crushed Dreams

    -My episode on the Pathetic Fallacy with Matthew and Alice

    -"Of the Pathetic Fallacy" by John Ruskin

    -Who're you callin "pathetic?"

    -Pro and Contra

    -Figurative language vs. the fallacy

    -The new edition of "All the Fun's In How You Say A Thing"

    -I'm interviewing Tim!

    -Watch the reading with David, Matthew, and Ryan here!

    -The Winters circle

    -The New Formalism

    -The pathetic fallacy is coming from inside the house!

    -Supreme fictions and noble lies

    -God, Machine, and Man

    -Animism and Shinto

    -The Jungian anima and the feminine turn

    -In pursuit of Agape

    Support the Show.

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    Please subscribe, rate, and review! Thanks so much for listening.

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    TikTok: @versecraft
    Send me a note at: versecraftpodcast@gmail.com

    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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    29 mins
  • Giving the Devil His Due: The Value of the Romantic Anti-Hero
    Jun 19 2024

    Soundtrack to this episode

    Topics discussed in this episode include:

    -"The Roots of Romanticism" by Isaiah Berlin

    -The Jena Set and the Schlegels

    -"Rousseau and Romanticism" by Irving Babbitt

    -Harold Bloom

    -"Science, Politics, and Gnosticism" by Eric Voegelin

    -"Classic, Romantic, and Modern" by Jacques Barzun

    -Inferno IV and XXVI

    -Prometheus Bound (probably not by Aeschylus)

    -"Paradise Lost" by the GOAT

    -The spiritual paradox of Romanticism

    -Turns out limbo parties aren't so fun

    -Nostalgia for Christianity

    -Romantic Irony: Metatextual and Anti-Heroic

    -Literature as self-exorcism

    -Unambiguous Ambivalence of Judgement

    -"The Brothers Karamazov" by Dostoevsky

    -"Hegel's Theory of Tragedy" by A.C. Bradley

    -Varieties of Anti-Hero

    -Literary alchemy

    Support the Show.

    BUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE.

    Please subscribe, rate, and review! Thanks so much for listening.

    You can leave me a tip, support the podcast, or request a commission here!

    TikTok: @versecraft
    Send me a note at: versecraftpodcast@gmail.com

    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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    27 mins

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