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Episode 173: By Heart: On Memory, Poetry, and Form

Episode 173: By Heart: On Memory, Poetry, and Form

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In this computerized age, we tend to see memory as a purely cerebral faculty. To memorize is to store information away in the brain in such a way as to make it retrievable at a later time. But the old expression "knowing by heart" calls us to a stranger, more embodied and mysterious take on memory. In this episode, Phil and JF endeavour to recite two poems they've learned by heart, as a preamble to a discussion on poetry, form, and the magic of memory.



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REFERENCES



Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Kubla Khan”

Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “A Musical Instrument”

Dave Hickey, “Formalism” from Pirates and Farmers

Weird Studies, Episode 109-110 on “The Glass Bead Game”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Biographia Literaria

Weird Studies, Episode 42 with Kerry O Brien

Francis Yates, Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition

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Episode 173: By Heart: On Memory, Poetry, and Form

Episode 173: By Heart: On Memory, Poetry, and Form

Phil Ford and J. F. Martel