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LIVE @ St. Thomas: "The Tear" by Richard Crashaw
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Topics discussed in this episode:
-The University of St. Thomas, Houston
-"The Flaming Heart" by Mario Praz
-Giambattista Marino
-Metaphysical vs. Baroque
-The poetry of rapture
-The Greek Anthology
-Laudianism
-Crashaw's Teresa poems
-Mixed meter and phantom beats
-"Venus and Adonis" by Billy Shakes
-The saintly grief in your wedding ring
-Aurora, not Selene!
-"The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia" by Sir Philip Sidney
-"On a Drop of Dew" by Andrew Marvell
-The nurturing sublime
-A humanized heaven in human eyes
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Supported in part by The Ohio Poetry Association
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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 (/ /)
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