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"The Marriage" by Yvor Winters
Mea culpa: Sorry about the little skip in the concluding reading-- don't know why that happened.
Text of the poem here.
Topics discussed in this episode include:
-"In Defense of Reason" by Yvor Winters
-"A Winters Tale" on SLEERICKETS
-"The Seriousness of Yvor Winters" by David Yezzi
-"The Absolutist: Yvor Winters" by Jan Schreiber
-"What You Need to Know About Yvor Winters" by James Matthew Wilson (also includes other cool links!)
-"Wisdom and Wilderness" by Dick Davis
-The morality of poetry and evaluative criticism
-The Wintersian legacy
-Yes, he really does sound like that
-The superiority of the heroic couplet
-Flesh, spirit, and sexual-religious vegetables
-Love vs. lust
-Poems that outlast everlasting love
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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 (/ /)