Hermetic Angelology: An Interview with Ryan Wilson

Topics discussed in this episode include:

-The MFA Program at the University of St. Thomas

-My episode on Ryan’s poem “Disobedience”

-"How to Think Like a Poet" by Ryan Wilson

-Wiseblood Books

-New editions of Dryden and Pope soon come!

-“The Catholic Writer Today” by Dana Gioia

-David Rothman

-New Verse Review’s St. Thomas issue

-“A Season in Hell” by Arthur Rimbaud

-“Pure and Impure Poetry” by Robert Penn Warren

-The Fugitives, Agrarians, and New Critics

-“The Waste Land” by T.S. Eliot

-“Dante” by T.S. Eliot

-“The World’s Body” by John Crowe Ransom

-“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T.S. Eliot

-“From Ritual to Romance” by Jessie Weston

-“Proteus Bound” by Ryan Wilson

-“El Desdichado” by Gerard de Nerval

-“An Archaic Torso of Apollo” by Rainer Maria Rilke

-Joyce’s “Ulysses” and the mythic method

-Aestheticism and Theophile Gautier

-Negative Capability

-Blake, Picasso, and derangement

-Four Roses whiskey (sponsor me!)

-“Rob Roy,” by Sir Walter Scott

-“For the Highway Medians” by Matthew Buckley Smith

-“To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time” by Robert Herrick

-A hypostatic, moral exegesis of the Odyssey

-The Aeneid as tragedy

-“Imitations” by Robert Lowell

-Plutarch’s “Lives”

-“Annus Mirabilis” by John Dryden

-Dryden vs. Pope

-Pope’s “Ode On Solitude” and “Essay On Man”

-“Heorot” by Ryan Wilson