Topics discussed in this episode: -Read this show on substack! -My new website!! -My conversation with David and Matthew on Age of Muses -My new post at Literary Matters -My French translation episode on Heredia -My Spanish translation episode on Lope -Metaphrase and paraphrase -Germany's view of Goethe -Magister Christopher Childers -From Sturm und Drang to Spit on that Thang (sorry) -Weimar (semi)Classicism -How to write a sex poem -Accentual-syllabic vs. Quantitative meter -The Edu...
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Topics discussed in this episode: -Read this show on substack! -My new website!! -My conversation with David and Matthew on Age of Muses -My new post at Literary Matters -My French translation episode on Heredia -My Spanish translation episode on Lope -Metaphrase and paraphrase -Germany's view of Goethe -Magister Christopher Childers -From Sturm und Drang to Spit on that Thang (sorry) -Weimar (semi)Classicism -How to write a sex poem -Accentual-syllabic vs. Quantitative meter -The Edu...
"Nor Strange It Is" by Frederick Goddard Tuckerman
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"Nor Strange It Is" by Frederick Goddard Tuckerman
Soundtrack to this episode Text of poem: Nor strange it is, to us who walk in bonds Of flesh and time, if virtue's self awhile Gleam dull like sunless ice; whilst graceful guile— Blood-flecked like hematite or diamonds With a red inward spark—to reconcile Beauty and evil seems and corresponds So well with good that the mind joys to have Full wider jet and scope nor swings and sleeps Forever in one cradle wearily: Like those vast weeds that off d'Acunha's isle Wash with the surf and flap t...
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Topics discussed in this episode: -Read this show on substack! -My new website!! -My conversation with David and Matthew on Age of Muses -My new post at Literary Matters -My French translation episode on Heredia -My Spanish translation episode on Lope -Metaphrase and paraphrase -Germany's view of Goethe -Magister Christopher Childers -From Sturm und Drang to Spit on that Thang (sorry) -Weimar (semi)Classicism -How to write a sex poem -Accentual-syllabic vs. Quantitative meter -The Edu...