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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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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 (/ /)

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

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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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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

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Sharp thoughts and cutting truths (Matthew): Sleerickets
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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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Text of poem

Topics discussed in this episode:

-My sojourn in Gaul

-ITER!

-Atomic Fusion

-The contemptible STEM/Humanities divide

-Amit Majmudar!

-Sleerickets Episode 144

-Amphibrachic hexameter

-"The Birth of Tragedy" by Friedrich Nietzsche

-The Solar Cycle

-Apollo, the inverse Romantic

-Homer's Odyssey

-The myth of Daphne

-Rage or Oblivion?

-Come see David, Matthew, and Ryan JUNE 13TH and Amit JULY 11TH!!

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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 (/ /)

COME OUT TO CLEVELAND June 13th to hear David, Matthew, and Ryan read!

Soundtrack to this episode

Topics discussed in this episode include:

-Au revoir until June!

-"The Birth of Tragedy" by Friederich Nietzsche

-"The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde

-"Pere Goriot" by Honore de Balzac

-The aesthetic parasite

-"And Which of Them In Time Would Be Betrayed" by Derek Walcott

-"The Georgics" by Publius Vergilius Maro

-"The Metamorphoses" by Publius Ovidius Naso

-The tale of Orpheus and Eurydice

-"Portrait of A Lady On Fire" directed by Celine Sciamma

-"Eurydice's Footnote" by A.E. Stallings

-"Pulling the Chariot of the Sun" by Shane McCrae

-"Eurydice On the Art of Poetry" by Shane McCrae

-"The Inferno" by Dante Alighieri

-"The Odyssey" by Omeros

-"Eurydice" by Adrienne Su

-"Axel" by Auguste Villiers de L'Isle-Adam

-The Orphic imperative absorbs all

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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 (/ /)

Soundtrack to today's episode

Topics discussed in this episode include:

-"On Portents" by Robert Graves

-"The White Goddess" by Robert Graves

-"Life With The Real White Goddess" by Louis Simpson

-Poetry Messiah Witch Cult

-The Fugitives

-Misadventures in polyamory

-"A Survey of Modernist Poetry" by Riding & Graves

-"The Cool Web" by Robert Graves

-The squishiness of children

-The double-edged sword of language

-"Rational Meaning: A New Foundation for the Definition of Words" by Laura Riding

-"Death As Death" by Laura Riding:

To conceive death as death

is difficulty come by easily,

a blankness fallen among

images of understanding,

death like a quick cold hand

on the hot slow head of suicide.

So is it come by easily

for one instant. Then again furnaces

roar in the ears, then again hell revolves,

and the elastic eye holds paradise

at visible length from blindness,

and dazedly the body echoes

‘like this, like this, like nothing else.’

Like nothing—a similarity

without resemblance. The prophetic eye,

closing upon difficulty,

opens upon comparison,

halving the actuality

as a gift too plain, for which

gratitude has no language,

foresight no vision.

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Sharp thoughts and cutting truths (Matthew): Sleerickets
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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 (/ /)

The soundtrack to today's episode

Topics discussed in this episode:

-Norman Finkelstein and Restless Messengers

-Formal Poet Voltron At Loganberry Books!! Get over here!

-Three great things: Literary Matters, 32 Poems, SLEERICKETS

-Ma! I'm On Sleerickets!

-Pre-12th century Medieval heroic poetry

-Chivalry vs. Courtly Love

-Slammin the canon

-Dante is a sad, strange little man

-and Petrarch needs to get a life

-The 16th Century Lyric in England by Yvor Winters

-Name a more iconic duo (power couple??) than Phil and Fulke.

-"Elegy For Philip Sidney" by Fulke Greville

-Caelica C by Fulke Greville

-Caelica CII by Fulke Greville

-Chorus Sacerdotum by Fulke Greville

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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 (/ /)

Topics discussed in this episode include:

-That famous soliliquy

-"The Myth of Sisyphus" by Albert Camus

-Inferno Canto XIII

-"Orthodoxy" by G.K. Chesterton

-The Catechism of the Catholic Church

-Prayopavesa

-Martyrs, Berserkers, Stoics and Samurai

-"The Right To Die" by Paul Laurence Dunbar

-"No" by A.M. Juster

-"Resume" by Dorothy Parker

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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 (/ /)