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Exploring the art of poetry through the craft of some of the world's best but most underrated poems.

Versecraft Elijah Perseus Blumov

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Exploring the art of poetry through the craft of some of the world's best but most underrated poems.

    "Apollinian" by Amit Majmudar

    "Apollinian" by Amit Majmudar

    Soundtrack to this episodeText of poemTopics discussed in this episode:-My sojourn in Gaul-ITER! -Atomic Fusion-The contemptible STEM/Humanities divide-Amit Majmudar! -Sleerickets Episode 144-Amphibrachic hexameter-"The Birth of Tragedy" by Friedrich Nietzsche-The Solar Cycle-Apollo, the inverse Romantic-Homer's Odyssey-The myth of Daphne-Rage or Oblivion?-Come see David, Matthew, and Ryan JUNE 13TH and Amit JULY 11TH!!Support the Show.BUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE.Please subscribe, rate, and rev...

    • 28 min
    "Eurydice On the Art of Poetry" by Shane McCrae

    "Eurydice On the Art of Poetry" by Shane McCrae

    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...

    • 26 min
    Folie a Deux: Laura Riding and Robert Graves

    Folie a Deux: Laura Riding and Robert Graves

    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...

    • 26 min
    Fulke Greville and the Rejection of Courtly Love

    Fulke Greville and the Rejection of Courtly Love

    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...

    • 31 min
    To Be Or Not: Dunbar and Juster On Suicide

    To Be Or Not: Dunbar and Juster On Suicide

    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...

    • 25 min
    10 Poems I Like

    10 Poems I Like

    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 ...

    • 31 min

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