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Haydn In Plain Style: An Interview With Dick Davis
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Topics discussed in this episode include:
E.M. Forster
“The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam” by Edward Fitzgerald
Thomas Hardy
W.H. Auden
“Troilus and Criseyde” by Geoffrey Chaucer
“Vis and Ramin” by Gorgani
“Wisdom and Wilderness” by Dick Davis
Thom Gunn
Yvor Winters
Fulke Greville
Edgar Bowers
Mozart vs. Haydn
“The Creation” by Joseph Haydn
“Requiem” by W.A. Mozart
“Symphony 9” by Franz Schubert
“Requiem” by Michael Haydn
The Creative and the Erotic
The Spirituality of Old Age
William Wordsworth
“The Poetry of Sturge Moore” by Edgar Bowers (thanks Shane!)
Atheism and Morality
Embracing Nothingness
“A Personal Sonnet” by Dick Davis
Text of poem:
A Personal Sonnet
How strange this life is mine, and not another,
this jigsaw... each irrevocable piece.
That bad, unfinished business of my brother,
dead at nineteen; my gadding years in Greece
and Italy; life lived, not understood;
a sunset in Kerala, when it seemed
the sun had risen on my life for good.
All this was real, but seems now as if dreamed.
The presences I've loved, and poetry--
faces I cannot parse or paraphrase
whose mystery is all that they reveal;
the Persian poets who laid hands on me
and whispered that all poetry is praise:
these are the dreams that turned out to be real.
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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 (/ /)
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