Mea culpa: Yes, I know "Sailing to Byzantium" was written like 20 years after "Conversion." By the time I realized my anachronism, it was too late. Something something Borges retroactive influence...
Topics discussed in this episode include:
-Mary Renault's "The King Must Die."
-Decadence begets Primitivism
-Gauguin, Picasso, Stravinsky
-Gustave Kahn and vers libre
-T.E. Hulme's essay, Lecture On Modern Poetry
-T.E. Hulme's essay, Romanticism and Classicism
-Symbolism vs. Imagism
-The conservative flavor of 20th century Classicism
-Science, Politics, and Gnosticism by Eric Voegelin
-Gettin' zesty
-Autumn by T.E. Hulme
-Conversion by T.E. Hulme
-The saga continues...
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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 (/ /)
