Topics discussed in this episode include:

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My lecture on The Grand Style in English

My poem, "Spelunker," in New Verse Review

The 2025 ALSCW Conference

Cameron’s substack

Ethan’s substack

Poetry’s psychological effect and moral charge

The burden of genius

Poetry vs. Philosophy

Maimonides and Augustine

The decadence of the academy

"Poetry as Enchantment" by Dana Gioia

The function of meter and rhyme

The heresy of paraphrase

Bouts-rime and pleonasm

Romanticism redux

Leo Strauss

The spiritual je ne sais quoi of tragedy

The horror film “Martyrs”

“Norma” by Vincenzo Bellini

“Tristan und Isolde” by Richard Wagner

Stoic vs. Christian resignation

Bourgeois tragedy and the existential hero

“Hedda Gabler” by Ibsen

“Brand” by Ibsen

“Death of a Salesman” by Arthur Miller

“The Death of Tragedy” by George Steiner

“The Clouds” by Aristophanes

Tragedy vs. Comedy and the Absurd

“It’s A Wonderful Life” by Frank Capra

“Alcestis” by Euripides

History as Self-consciousness

The hazards of Protestantism

The history of the night before

“Swann’s Way” by Marcel Proust

Monuments as time capsules

The Egyptian legacy

The Book of Job

Friendship with the dead

The musical chain of being

Music as the Cosmic Will

Discord and reconciliation

You are the string that is plucked

Liebestod

The h

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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 (/ /)

Topics discussed in this episode include:

Cameron’s substack

Ethan’s substack

"The World as Will and Representation" by Arthur Schopenhauer

Why you Kant do metaphysics anymore

Matter, Phenomena, Representation, Maya vs.

Form, Noumena, Will, Nirvana

Terrains of flesh

French vs. English gardens

From Schopenhauer to Freud

Perception vs Reflection

Art vs. Philosophy

Idea vs. Conception

The Symbolist Movement

Classical Architecture supremacy?

My Case for Meter and Rhyme episodes (1 and 2)

Shane McCrae

We want stallions, not blobs!

Classical vs. Gothic

Art Deco and Brutalism

Sculpture vs. Painting

Zeuxis

David Lynch, Symboliste

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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 (/ /)

Topics discussed in this episode include:

-My recent class at the Frost Farm Conference

-My trip to Europe

-Come to the ALSCW Conference!

-Part I and Part II of my essay on French poetry in Marginalia Review of Books

-New poems and translations of mine in the latest issue of Literary Matters

-My essays The Iron Lyre and The Monumentalist Manifesto

-The most recent SLEERICKETS

-The Romantic within the Classicist

-Philosophy within poetry

-The mystique of Santayana

-"The Morning Song of Senlin" by Conrad Aiken

-"The Clerk's Journal" and "The House of Dust" by Conrad Aiken

-"Under the Volcano" by Malcolm Lowry

-"Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil" by John Berendt

-The Colossi of Memnon

-Metrical trickery and incorporating Whitman into iambs.

-Stevensian Idealism and the Supreme Fiction

-Neoplatonism and Ukiyo

-From Solipsism to Pantheism

-From Berkeley to Kant

-The meaning of "God's Image"

-Dialectical Monism, the Dyad, and the Tao

Support the show

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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 (/ /)