Versecraft Elijah Perseus Blumov

COME OUT TO CLEVELAND June 13th to hear David, Matthew, and Ryan read! Soundtrack to this episode Topics discussed in this episode include: -Au revoir until June! -"The Birth of Tragedy" by Friederich Nietzsche-"The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde-"Pere Goriot" by Honore de Balzac-The aesthetic parasite-"And Which of Them In Time Would Be Betrayed" by Derek Walcott-"The Georgics" by Publius Vergilius Maro-"The Metamorphoses" by Publius Ovidius Naso-The tale of...

Soundtrack to today's episodeTopics discussed in this episode include:-"On Portents" by Robert Graves-"The White Goddess" by Robert Graves-"Life With The Real White Goddess" by Louis Simpson-Poetry Messiah Witch Cult-The Fugitives-Misadventures in polyamory-"A Survey of Modernist Poetry" by Riding & Graves-"The Cool Web" by Robert Graves-The squishiness of children-The double-edged sword of language-"Rational Meaning: A New Foundation for the Definition of Words" by Laura Riding-"Death As...

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 ic...

Topics discussed in this episode include: -That famous soliliquy-"The Myth of Sisyphus" by Albert Camus-Inferno Canto XIII-"Orthodoxy" by G.K. Chesterton-The Catechism of the Catholic Church-Prayopavesa-Martyrs, Berserkers, Stoics and Samurai-"The Right To Die" by Paul Laurence Dunbar-"No" by A.M. Juster-"Resume" by Dorothy ParkerSupport the Show.BUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE.Please subscribe, rate, and review! Thanks so much for listening.You can leave me a tip, support the podcast, or requ...

Poems discussed on this episode include: "Are They Shadows" by Samuel Daniel"To Heaven" by Ben Jonson"The Kraken" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson"Aspecta Medusa" by Dante Gabriel RossettiSonnet VII by George Santayana"Rock and Hawk" by Robinson Jeffers"What Are Years" by Marianne Moore"My Son, My Executioner" by Donald Hall"Drought" by Catherine Chandler (see show transcript for text)"Elegy" by John Dunn SmithSupport the Show.BUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE.Please subscribe, rate, and review! Thanks ...

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...