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Fulke Greville and the Rejection of Courtly Love

Elijah Perseus Blumov Season 6 Episode 7

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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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 (/ /)