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John Clare and the Madness of Poets
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Topics discussed include:
-Plato's "Ion"
-The Muses and Schizophrenia
-Poets must be weirdos
-The normies are the willing slaves of the mad
-Lewis's trilemma
-The American Confessionals and the French Decadents
-The Wild 18th century
-Go read William Cowper's "The Task!"
-Samuel Johnson, Richard Savage, William Collins, Christopher Smart, William Blake, Friederich Holderlin, The Marquis de Sade
-Jubilate Agno, The Sorrows of Young Werther, Thomson's The Seasons, Tristram Shandy
-The man who thought he was Byron
-"I Am" by John Clare
-Vers libre vs. verse libere
-"Dover Beach" by Matthew Arnold
-The Masque of the Red Death
-Et in Arcadia Ego
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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 (/ /)