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"The Coronet" by Andrew Marvell

Elijah Perseus Blumov Season 5 Episode 5

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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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 (/ /)