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Soundtrack to this episodeTopics discussed in this episode include:-Listen to my talk on Melville here-Listen to my poetry reading with Dan Brown here-Outsider poetry-The Education of Henry Adams-Metrical hijinks-The inherent negations of blindness-"Durer: Insbrook, 1495" by Ern Malley-"Lycidas" by John Milton-Forging a new sensibility in identitarian poetry Text of poem:The Educat

Soundtrack to this episodeText of poem:The Last Act‘Tis the god Hercules, whom Antony loved, Now leaves him. It is too often only close to death,or utter failure, when the mind is heldto truth, we see the outlines of the gods,those whom we loved but never realized. Above us in a void burnt-out and cold,at unfamiliar heights their forms returnlike ghosts to move across the final n

Soundtrack to this episodeLink to poems! Read the Classical Outlook poetry issue here! NEW MERCH HERETo receive a link to the Critical Path Symposium, follow the email link at the bottom right of this pageTopics discussed in this episode include:-Philip Walsh and Rachel Hadas!-The Classical Outlook!-Classical Reception Studies-"44 Pastorals" by Rachel Hadas-Prosimetra/Haibun-"Prose

Als Zarathustra dreissig Jahr alt war, verliess er seine Heimat und den See seiner Heimat und ging in das Gebirge. Hier genoss er seines Geistes und seiner Einsamkeit und wurde dessen zehn Jahr nicht müde. Endlich aber verwandelte sich sein Herz,—und eines Morgens stand er mit der Morgenröthe auf, trat vor die Sonne hin und sprach zu ihr also: „Du grosses Gestirn! Was wäre d

Mea culpa: "The Neural Lyre" was published in 1983, not 1994. Don't know why I said that! Read today's poem hereTopics discussed in this episode include:-William Paley's watchmaker analogy-Problems with teleological arguments-Brandon Carter's Anthropic Principle-Multiverse/many worlds theory-John Archibald Wheeler's Participatory Anthropic Principle-"It from bit"-George Berkeley's

Mea culpa: Apologies for my faint audio in the beginning! Soundtrack to this episode Second soundtrack, because... I had to. Topics discussed in this episode include:-Thom Gunn and some of his literary interests (Henry James, George Macdonald, Saki, Ovid, etc.)-My episode on Thom Gunn-My episode on Timothy Steele-Read The Classical Outlook!!-Writing from experience vs. writing from

Soundtrack to this episode (it's Stephen Kampa!)Topics discussed in this episode include:-Go read New Verse Review!-Go listen to my talk on SLEERICKETS about Horace's Ars Poetica!-Go listen to the mighty Fer de Lance!-The Sleerickets Stephen Kampa episode-Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason-From Transcendental Idealism to Transcendentalism-Romanticism as post-Kantian reaction -

Soundtrack to this episodeTopics discussed in this episode include: -Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray-Portrait of the artist in a digital world-The New York Times 100 Best Books of the 21st Century-The decline and fall of poetry -Four paths to pecuniary stability-My episode on Amit Majmudar-"Patronage" by Amit Majmudar-Techno-feudalism-The linger of poetic mysti

Soundtrack to this episode Topics discussed in this episode include:-The Beatles-Beatles documentary "Get Back" -"The Other Frost" by Randall Jarrell-"Robert Frost: or, the Spiritual Drifter as Poet" by Yvor Winters-"The Other Other Frost" by William Logan-"The Themes of Robert Frost" by Robert Penn Warren-"A History of Modern Poetry" by David Perkins-Phalaecian hendacasyllabics-Ca

Soundtrack to this episodeFor text of poem, please see episode transcript at versecraft.buzzsprout.com.Topics discussed in this episode include: -C'est Moi, MBS's response to my episode Giving the Devil His Due-My review of Matthew's book, "Midlife," entitled The Poet Laureate of Crushed Dreams-My episode on the Pathetic Fallacy with Matthew and Alice-"Of the Pathetic Fallacy" by J