The Troubadour Podcast
"It is the honourable characteristic of Poetry that its materials are to be found in every subject which can interest the human mind." William Wordsworth The Troubadour Podcast invites you into a world where art is conversation and conversation is art. The conversations on this show will be with some living people and some dead writers of our past. I aim to make both equally entertaining and educational.In 1798 William Wordsworth and Samuel Coleridge published Lyrical Ballads, which Wordsworth called an experiment to discover how far the language of everyday conversation is adapted to the purpose of poetic pleasure. With this publication, he set in motion the formal movement called "Romanticism." 220 years later the experiment is continued on this podcast. This podcast seeks to reach those of us who wish to improve our inner world, increase our stores of happiness, and yet not succumb to the mystical or the subjective.Here, in this place of the imagination, you will find many conversation with those humans creating things that interest the human mind.
The Troubadour Podcast
MM #9 "Air and Angels" By John Donne
The ultimate question of the sexes: Do men love women more than Women love Men?
Donne argues that his masculine love is superior than the love his woman feels for him. Maybe that's why he had such trouble with women?
In this (very challenging) poem we will see two major analogies: Masculine love and angels.
To understand this analogy I am going to share with you some important PRE-Newtonian concepts about the world in which we inhabit.
The best way to understand history is to live it and the best way to live it is through literature.