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"An Arundel Tomb" by Philip Larkin
Topics discussed in this episode include:
-Sentimentality
-National character
-Philip Larkin, novelist: "Jill," and "A Girl in Winter"
-"The Movement" movement
-The Oxford Book of 20th Century English Verse
-"Church-Going" by Philip Larkin
-The blindness of historical consciousness
-Temporal and generational erosion
-"Miniver Cheevy" by E.A. Robinson
-Last lines and legacies
-But is it sentimental??
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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 (/ /)