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 of poetry and evaluative criticism

-The Wintersian legacy
-Yes, he really does sound like that

-The superiority of the heroic couplet

-Flesh, spirit, and sexual-religious vegetables

-Love vs. lust

-Poems that outlast everlasting love

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The landscape of Ohioan poetry (Jeremy): Poetry Spotlight

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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 (/ /)