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The Numinous Pastorals of Robert Wells
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Topics discussed in this episode include:
-The Cambridge Three: Dick Davis, Robert Wells, Clive Wilmer
-The Stanford Poets: Thom Gunn, Edgar Bowers, Yvor Winters, etc.
-Virgil's Georgics
-The Idylls of Theocritus
-Wells poems discussed: "A Caution," "Deus Loci," "The Unnamed Pool," "The Bathing Place," "The Last of Summer."
-Episodes on the pathetic fallacy here and here
-Apophasis
-"Le Cimetiere Marin" by Paul Valery
-"The Slow Pacific Swell" by Yvor Winters
-Sensory deprivation tanks
-Mysticism vs. Love
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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 (/ /)