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"The Coronet" by Andrew Marvell
Text of poem here
Topics discussed in this episode include:
-Romanticism, Modernism, and The Lyric
-Defining ourselves against the vices of our age
-Historical problems with Lyric
-Modernism as pharmakon
-T.S. Eliot's essay, Andrew Marvell
-T.S. Eliot's essay, The Metaphysical Poets
-Marvell's Horatian Ode
-Marvell's Country House poem, Upon Appleton House
-Marvell's "Collige, Virgo, Rosas" or "Carpe Diem" poem, To His Coy Mistress
-Paradise Lost
-An anatomy of Marvell's style
-La Corona by John Donne (my episode on Donne here)
-A Wreath by George Herbert (my episode on Herbert here)
-Stichic vs. Strophic
-On Mr. Milton's Paradise Lost by Marvell
-The selfish heart of the artist
-The Faerie Queene
-Pied Beauty by Gerard Manley Hopkins
-The terrifying prodigality of God
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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 (/ /)