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Gloves of Mettle: An Interview with Timothy Steele
Mea culpa: Apologies for my faint audio in the beginning!
Second soundtrack, because... I had to.
Topics discussed in this episode include:
-Thom Gunn and some of his literary interests (Henry James, George Macdonald, Saki, Ovid, etc.)
-Read The Classical Outlook!!
-Writing from experience vs. writing from ideas
-"Missing Measures" by Timothy Steele
-All the Fun's In How You Say a Thing, 2nd Edition!
-Desert Places by Robert Frost
-How form informs content
-The importance of rhythmic modulation
-"The Audible Reading of Poetry" by Yvor Winters
-"Versification: A Short Introduction" by James McAuley
-The 20th century metrical Renaissance
-Bring back verse epistles!
-Yvor Winters's criticism: pro and contra
-The Plain Style
-The Stanford School: Yvor Winters, Janet Lewis, J.V. Cunningham, Edgar Bowers, Helen Pinkerton, Thom Gunn, etc.
-X.J. Kennedy
-Palo Alto poets vs. San Francisco poets
-The Curious Case of Thom Gunn
-What Winters and Poe have in common
-The Smith, Wilson, Clark reading
-"Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of Steele"
-Waiting for the Storm by Timothy Steele
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Supported in part by The Ohio Poetry Association
Art by David Anthony Klug
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 (/ /)