The Troubadour Podcast
298 episodes - English - Latest episode: 23 days ago -"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.
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Quarantine Nation! A Conversation with Rucka Rucka Ali
March 18, 2020 22:00 - 2 hours - 102 MBSend us a Text Message. You know him as the youtube sensation taking over the minds of young people like a ... Well I won't talk like that right now. He's Rucka Rucka Ali. We discussed how we are dealing with lock downs as well as how Objectivism helps us laymen interpret and act based on the current state of affairs. Later in the discussion we get into a variety of topics including what we are reading now (you'll never guess!) the role of literature at a time like this, the creative proc...
A Dream by William Blake
March 15, 2020 12:00 - 37 minutes - 26 MBSend us a Text Message. For the Romantics Dreams played a very special role in our lives. It was an indication of our imaginative capacities to reach into other realms. In this poem we experience a dream that Blake had about an ant that becomes isolated from its community. We learn more about Blakes view of imagination, the self, innocence and the loss of innocence in "A Dream."
The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe
March 14, 2020 23:00 - 18 minutes - 12.9 MBSend us a Text Message. Poe was a proponent of a "single unified effect" in his fiction work. Some emotion that all of the parts of the story lead up to and create. In The Cask of Amontillado we can experience the fear of unknown death by the character Fortunato. Or we can experience the fear of our own potential for violence in the narrator Montressor. Which one do you experience?
Infant Joy and Infant Sorrow by William Blake
March 08, 2020 13:00 - 37 minutes - 26 MBSend us a Text Message. How should we perceive children? Are children born with sin as the Calvinists believed? Do infants retain a memory of God as some Romantics believed? Are children, as Rousseau taught, naturally good with an innate ability to learn? In these two poems we will explore how William Blake, a Romantic poet, gave voice to the voiceless infants. We will also discuss why these poems are useless by themselves but profound within the context of The Songs of Innocence and Ex...
Nurse's Song by William Blake
March 01, 2020 13:00 - 20 minutes - 14.3 MBSend us a Text Message. This is a great example of William Blake's expression of the dialectic process. There are two nurse's songs in Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience. Each one reveals the inner feelings of a nurse as she is watching over a group of her wards. Each poem is in contrast to the other and speaking through the other. This is a shorter episode because these poems are both more on the surface. But they are valuable to understanding Blake's book as a whole.
Night by William Blake
February 23, 2020 21:00 - 37 minutes - 26 MBSend us a Text Message. Night may be a time for partying in 2020, but two hundred years ago night represented terror and death. In this poem we will explore a deep theme that runs throughout both the Songs of Innocence and the Songs of Experience. It will be important to read or listen to this poem before we read the songs of experience.
Holy Thursday by William Blake
February 16, 2020 13:00 - 47 minutes - 32.4 MBSend us a Text Message. In this episode I have a movie recommendation too! There are two Holy Thursdays, one in The Songs of Innocence and another in the Songs of Experience. The focus for this episode is the innocence. As with other songs of innocence poems, there is a layer of darkness just beneath the surface. Ostensibly this is a poem about an annual procession of orphans in London called Ascension Day. The poem is told from the perspective of a casual observer of the ceremony. We'll...
A Cradle Song by William Blake
February 09, 2020 13:00 - 30 minutes - 21.2 MBSend us a Text Message. This is a very simple poem about a mother who sits by her infant's cradle while he sleeps and sings him a song. The deeper question to ask is, why is she crying?
The Roots of Progress With Jason Crawford
February 05, 2020 13:00 - 1 hour - 67 MBSend us a Text Message. I had the pleasure to sit down with Jason Crawford of The Roots of Progress to discuss human progress in the arts and sciences. We discussed quite a bit, including: The concept of progress Progress in ancient Greece and Modern progress How it can be lost How art can fuel human progress Explorers like Vasco Balboa and the myth of Eldorado History of bronze, steel and other technologies And so much more! Enjoy this great conversation and let us know what you think. I...
The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe (PT 1)
February 03, 2020 19:00 - 48 minutes - 33.4 MBSend us a Text Message. Next to The Tell-Tale Heart, this short tale by Poe is one of his most famous today. It is the story of a man captured by the Spanish Inquisition and sent to a dark pit where he received the worst psychological tortures. We tend to think of Poe as purely a horror writer, which he is. But in Part 2 of this show I will discuss more of Poe's contributions to science fiction, which are present even in this work.
The Laughing Song by William Blake
February 02, 2020 13:00 - 40 minutes - 27.9 MBSend us a Text Message. A new theme from The Song's of Innocence and Experience by Blake starts to take shape with this poem. In simple language, understandable to a 5 year old, Blake uses words to paint a picture of a kind of fairy tale land. This is a perfect land that can actually exist one day. To get to that day requires just one important condition. The Laughing Song By William Blake When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy, And the dimpling stream runs laughing by; Whe...
The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar by Edgar Allan Poe (Pt 2 - Commentary)
January 28, 2020 13:00 - 1 hour - 41.5 MBI will be arguing that Science Fiction is the genre of fantasy literature that uses science as a backdrop of plausibility. Moreover, that is an important genre for our present day, as its themes and style very much do influence our modern world. We will be comparing Edgar Allan Poe's Rhetoric of Science style of writing with Nathanial Hawthorne and Mary Shelley's romantic style of writing. We will also delve into this story by Poe, its impact at the time of publishing it, and the lessons w...
The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar by Edgar Allan Poe (Pt 2 - Commentary)
January 28, 2020 13:00 - 1 hour - 41.5 MBSend us a Text Message. I will be arguing that Science Fiction is the genre of fantasy literature that uses science as a backdrop of plausibility. Moreover, that is an important genre for our present day, as its themes and style very much do influence our modern world. We will be comparing Edgar Allan Poe's Rhetoric of Science style of writing with Nathanial Hawthorne and Mary Shelley's romantic style of writing. We will also delve into this story by Poe, its impact at the time of publish...
The Little Boy Lost and The Little Boy Found by William Blake
January 26, 2020 13:00 - 22 minutes - 15.4 MBSend us a Text Message. William Blake believed there were two contrary states battling it out within each and every individual human being. Innocence and experience. The way that we developed as unique individuals was by a "dialectic process." That is, there is a Thesis (a little boy is lost) and an Anti-thesis (The little boy is found) Together they can become a synthesis, or, a new thesis. We find this process all throughout this book of poetry by Blake. In today's episode we will be c...
The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar by Edgar Allan Poe (Pt 1)
January 24, 2020 20:00 - 31 minutes - 21.3 MBSend us a Text Message. In this short story by Poe we hear a tale from a scientist who performs mesmerism on a man in articulo mortis. That is, "at the point of death." Mesmerism was a method of psychological and physical healing developed by Franz Anton Mesmer (1734-1815), a Viennese doctor. It was believed to be therapeutic, especially of nervous people, and many also believed it could override the will of another person, as is hypnotism. Poe shares a story from a man who actually perfor...
The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar by Edgar Allan Poe (Pt 1)
January 24, 2020 20:00 - 31 minutes - 21.3 MBIn this short story by Poe we hear a tale from a scientist who performs mesmerism on a man in articulo mortis. That is, "at the point of death." Mesmerism was a method of psychological and physical healing developed by Franz Anton Mesmer (1734-1815), a Viennese doctor. It was believed to be therapeutic, especially of nervous people, and many also believed it could override the will of another person, as is hypnotism. Poe shares a story from a man who actually performed mesmerism on a man at...
The Pastoral Poems of William Blake
January 19, 2020 13:00 - 34 minutes - 24 MBSend us a Text Message. On this episode I cover three very short poems by William Blake in his Songs of Innocence and Experience: 1) The Shepherd 2) The Lamb 3) Spring These are the pastoral poems in this book of poetry. You'll learn the difference between a pastoral poem and a georgic poem and why that is important. Also, we'll explore the deeper themes recurring throughout this work by Blake.
The Chimney Sweeper by William Blake
January 12, 2020 16:00 - 59 minutes - 40.9 MBSend us a Text Message. WARNING: This is not an episode for people who cannot handle the reality of the decisions that parents had to make during the early years of the industrial revolution. On this episode I give you a history lesson on life during the early years of the Industrial Revolution, including a history of chimney sweepers. Blake's poem can be seen simply as a tale of a young chimney sweeper who has a vision about an angel setting him and his friends free, and it can be seen a...
Modern Dating Culture W/ Director Stewart Wade
January 08, 2020 13:00 - 1 hour - 60 MBSend us a Text Message. Stewart Wade Margolis joins me for another conversation about poetry and his work as a diretor. This time we discussed the poem by William Blake "The Garden of Love," as well as his short vignettes about dating as a gay man in Coffee House Chronicles. We had a great conversation about sexual repression in our society as well as the similarities and differences of dating and sexual taboos in modern culture. Here is the poem by Blake: The Garden of Love BY WILLIAM ...
The Little Black Boy by William Blake
January 05, 2020 13:00 - 54 minutes - 37.7 MBSend us a Text Message. Get ready for some difficult to read poetic moments. Here we will deal with racism and slavery. In this poem by Blake, from The Songs of Innocence, he expresses in beautiful verse a story that a mother tells to her young child about why they are black slaves living in England during the mid 18th century. If you have followed along with my readings of Blake you will know that this is only the surface level. It is the "innocent" reading. The experienced reading will...
Response to Yaron Brook's review of The Irishman
December 31, 2019 23:00 - 1 hour - 62.7 MBSend us a Text Message. This is an audio version of the video you can find at troubadourmag.com or on Facebook or Youtube: In this video I discuss Yaron Brook's review of The Irishman by Martin Scorsese. While there are several point of agreement I have with Yaron's assessment, I believe he fundamentally misses the point of the movie. Moreover, I believe he wrongly applies Ayn Rand's conception of esthetics to Scorsese's movie. Here I will defend The Irishman as great art, whether or not ...
The Lamb by William Blake
December 22, 2019 13:00 - 36 minutes - 25 MBSend us a Text Message. *I also read "The Tyger" by Blake from the Songs of Experience. Of all the innocence projected in The Songs of Innocence, none are more so than The Lamb! We will explore the imagery and metaphors as well as the tone of this poem by Blake. As I have recommended in my other videos on Blake, if you have a small child, try reading this to them and talking through it. You may be interested to hear what a child hears versus what you hear.
The Echoing Green by William Blake
December 15, 2019 13:00 - 34 minutes - 23.9 MBSend us a Text Message. This is the third poem in The Songs of Innocence, where we see a simple pastoral scene with families playing in a green pasture during springtime, from a child's perspective. But as adults reading it we will see something different, maybe even something slightly dark. In this episode I will show teachers and parents a simple exercise to enjoy this Blake poem as a family. As all the songs of innocence, this is a great poem to read to children. And as Blake intended,...
SMP #30 Introduction to the Songs of Innocence by William Blake
December 08, 2019 13:00 - 39 minutes - 27.4 MBSend us a Text Message. William Blake was the most eccentric of the Romantics. He was equally important in visual arts as well as poetry. His books included beautiful engravings all hand made, and for this reason he was not well known until the 20th century. A man opposed to oppression and repression of all times, in his work we see an imaginative mind building an entire world before our eyes. This first poem, "The Piper" is from The Songs of Innocence and it serves as the introduction t...
Tintern Abbey by William Wordsworth
December 01, 2019 13:00 - 1 hour - 69.9 MBThis episode was recording during the holidays 2019. The Holidays are a time of reflections on your past as you prepare for New Years Eve resolutions for your future. Can recollecting your past be done improperly? Is it an infallible process? If it is not infallible, what should we do about it? These are some of the themes we will see in Tintern Abbey by Wordsworth. The full title of this poem is Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a T...
SMP #29 Tintern Abbey by William Wordsworth
December 01, 2019 13:00 - 1 hour - 69.9 MBSend us a Text Message. This episode was recording during the holidays 2019. The Holidays are a time of reflections on your past as you prepare for New Years Eve resolutions for your future. Can recollecting your past be done improperly? Is it an infallible process? If it is not infallible, what should we do about it? These are some of the themes we will see in Tintern Abbey by Wordsworth. The full title of this poem is Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, On Revisiting the Ba...
SMP #28 The Complaint of a Forsaken Indian Woman by William Wordsworth
November 24, 2019 13:00 - 32 minutes - 22.6 MBSend us a Text Message. This is one of Wordsworth's most far-reaching poems. It takes place in a land he never set foot on: America. Based on stories he read about traveling tribes of American Indians, he wrote this harrowing tale about a woman who is too sick to continue walking with her tribe, so they abandon her.
SMP #27 Old Man Travelling: Animal Tranquility and Decay, a Sketch by William Wordsworth
November 17, 2019 13:00 - 28 minutes - 19.6 MBSend us a Text Message. In the Oxford Book of English Verse, edited by Christopher Ricks, there are 9 William Wordsworth poems. Old Man Travelling, animal tranquility and decay was selected twice. Like many of Wordsworth's best poems, this one power is so subtle it is easy to miss it. However, it is poetry and art par excellence. Since the poem is so short I do not wish to spoil the exhilerating emotional revelation that occurs in a renewed investigation into this poem, so I will merely ...
The Convict by William Wordsworth
November 10, 2019 13:00 - 49 minutes - 33.7 MBIn November, 2019 the state of Oklahoma released almost 500 "non-violent" criminals in the largest commutation in US history. This brought up many issues regarding the justice system and the court system. But it also brings up a critical issue about the role and goals of the penal system. Can convicts be reformed? If it is possible then what is in our best interest to support? If a convict CAN be reformed, then should not not attempt to help them do so? And at the very least, should we not...
SMP #26 The Convict by William Wordsworth
November 10, 2019 13:00 - 49 minutes - 33.7 MBSend us a Text Message. In November, 2019 the state of Oklahoma released almost 500 "non-violent" criminals in the largest commutation in US history. This brought up many issues regarding the justice system and the court system. But it also brings up a critical issue about the role and goals of the penal system. Can convicts be reformed? If it is possible then what is in our best interest to support? If a convict CAN be reformed, then should not not attempt to help them do so? And at the ...
The Female Vagrant by William Wordsworth
November 06, 2019 13:00 - 1 hour - 58.2 MBThe Female Vagrant is one of Wordsworth's most political poems. It tells the story two wanderers seeking shelter during a stormy night on Salisbury Plain in England. The woman tells how she came to be destitute and alone: her father had been evicted from his cottage in the Lakes by a wealthy industrialist neighbor, she had married but the advent of war had ruined them and, in a last desperate attempt to support her and their children, he volunteered for the army. He is shipped to fight in th...
SMP #25 The Female Vagrant by William Wordsworth
November 06, 2019 13:00 - 1 hour - 58.2 MBSend us a Text Message. The Female Vagrant is one of Wordsworth's most political poems. It tells the story two wanderers seeking shelter during a stormy night on Salisbury Plain in England. The woman tells how she came to be destitute and alone: her father had been evicted from his cottage in the Lakes by a wealthy industrialist neighbor, she had married but the advent of war had ruined them and, in a last desperate attempt to support her and their children, he volunteered for the army. He ...
SMP #24 The Tables Turned, An Evening Scene on the Same Subject by William Wordsworth
November 03, 2019 19:00 - 50 minutes - 34.8 MBSend us a Text Message. In this special episode I quote several passages from William Wordsworth's prefaces to the Lyrical Ballads and passages from C. Bradley Thompson's newest book "America's Revolutionary Mind." My argument is that Wordsworth, in telling people to put away their books and look to Nature is reflecting a philosophical view from Isaac Newton and John Locke. Up ! up ! my friend, and clear your looks, Why all this toil and trouble ? Up ! up ! my friend, and quit your books,...
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
October 31, 2019 18:00 - 1 hour - 77.8 MBSend us a Text Message. I am releasing this poem on Halloween, because it is indeed a horror story. In fact, it was so terrifying that when the young Mary Shelley first heard a reading of it, she hid behind a chair. Today, this poem may not terrify us in the way that it did people at the time, but I will be making two big arguments as to why you should challenge yourself to read poems like this even if you at first do not like them. Coleridge's Mariner may be one of the most influential po...
Conversation with Screenwriter and Poet, Paul Guay
October 30, 2019 12:00 - 2 hours - 90.7 MBSend us a Text Message. Paul Guay conceived and co-wrote "Liar, Liar" and co-wrote "The Little Rascals" and "Heartbreakers." We had a wonderful conversation about movies and movie making, art and culture, the changing tide of media, being a writer and the writing process, Paul's love of WWE, his filmmaking experiences, the Auteur Theory of FIlmmaking and much much more. If you are interested in how movies are made, how to make a career in Hollywood, how the landscape is changing as well...
SMP #24 Expostulation and Reply by William Wordsworth
October 27, 2019 13:00 - 34 minutes - 23.7 MBSend us a Text Message. In his conversation poem, "Expostulation and Reply," William Wordsworth brings the art of argument into poetry. A school teacher, Matthew, trained in the classical method of jamming facts into people's foreheads, admonishes young William for sitting out in nature and contemplating it. “Up! Up! and drink the spirit breath’d / “From dead men to their kind," he says. In other words, get out of nature and read your books young Willy! Well, you can imagine the young ...
MM #9 "Air and Angels" By John Donne
October 21, 2019 22:00 - 37 minutes - 25.9 MBSend us a Text Message. 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 ...
SMP #23 Lines Written near Richmond, Upon the Thames, at Evening, By William Wordsworth
October 20, 2019 18:00 - 52 minutes - 36.4 MBSend us a Text Message. There is deep value in removing yourself from your own skin and entering the skin of another person. Only through poetry and literature and painting can we exercise this ability of humans. And in this poem, Wordsworth teaching you how Lines Written Near Richmond, upon the Thames at Evening By William Wordworth How rich the wave, in front, imprest With evening-twilight’s summer hues, While, facing thus the crimson west, The boat her silent path pursues! And se...
The Idiot Boy by William Wordsworth
October 16, 2019 20:00 - 55 minutes - 38.3 MBSend us a Text Message. On this special episode I will read The Idiot Boy by William Wordsworth. This poem was published in the 1798 Lyrical Ballads and it was very controversial. Yet, it is a beautifully written poem. I spend the majority of the time simply reading the poem. I hope you enjoy the reading! At the end I give a small critique of Wordsworth's philosophy, but mostly I defend him and Romanticism from the cliche attacks toward Romanticism. THE IDIOT BOY By William Wordsworth ...
Metaphysical Mondays #8: The Triple Fool by John Donne
October 07, 2019 12:00 - 26 minutes - 18.2 MBSend us a Text Message. Ah to love is to be a fool, to tell your love is to be a double fool. But to be a triple fool? How does one do that? John Donne will show you how. In this special episode I go in to this poem with no prep. That means you will experience a live analysis and exploration of this poem. There will be times when I say "oh I was wrong about that interpretation, I'm quite sure it means this." And, "hmm what does this mean!?" I hope by the end you will see that there is in...
SMP #22 "The Dungeon" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
October 06, 2019 12:00 - 38 minutes - 26.1 MBSend us a Text Message. What is the purpose of a penal system? Is it strictly to punish or can it be to reform? If it can reform what are the best methods of accomplishing this? The romanticist Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote a poem called The Dungeon, which is a soliloqouy from a man who resides in a medieval dungeon. He is lamenting more than his own personal situation, but the idea of what man has made of man. Do dungeons and prisons truly work for the guilty? Or do they make their souls ...
A Poet for All Times: Quent Cordair Conversation
October 01, 2019 12:00 - 1 hour - 59.8 MBSend us a Text Message. I had the pleasure of visiting the Quent Cordair Fine Art Gallery in Napa Valley and chatting with poet, painter, author, novelist, Marine, businessman (etc etc!) Author Quent Cordair. William Wordsworth said that a poet is a "man speaking to men." This is certainly true of Quent Cordair's poetry. We chatted about his poetic influences and fiction and we dissected a Robert Frost poem along with two poems in Quent's latest book My Kingdom (https://www.amazon.com/My-...
Metaphysical Mondays #7 The Canonization by John Donne
September 30, 2019 14:00 - 33 minutes - 22.8 MBSend us a Text Message. Do you know that annoying couple that is always so lovey dovey? You know the type, they wear matching clothes and finish each other's sentences? Well get prepared to meet a man who believes he is so in love that he believes they should be canonized forever. In "Canonization" John Donne makes a bizarre argument. Why can't two ideal lovers become canonized (made into saints by the Catholic Church?) This is bizarre because by ideal lovers, he does not mean platonic lo...
SMP #21 The Foster-Mother's Tale by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
September 29, 2019 13:00 - 56 minutes - 39.1 MBSend us a Text Message. In this episode I will give you two extreme models of education. One is best represented in the tale of Petronilla and the other is best represented in that of #gretathunberg A theme that runs throughout the 1798 Lyrical Ballads by Coleridge and Wordsworth is that of nature as educator for a child. In this poem—a fragment from a theatrical play by Coleridge—we see multiple viewpoints on education. One critical question we must answer is how much, if any, of the outs...
Metaphysical Mondays #6: The Sun Rising by John Donne
September 23, 2019 19:00 - 45 minutes - 31 MBSend us a Text Message. Have you ever laid in bed with your significant other and just wished you could lay there all day but the cares of the world kept fighting their way into your life? Well, John Donne knows how ya feel and he proposes you do something about it. As a Metaphysical Poet, witty and conceited, he proposes you start to command the sun, rather than the other way around. In this episode you will learn a bit about Medieval Cosmology and the Chain of Beings Theory of the unive...
SMP #20 The Last of the Flock
September 22, 2019 13:00 - 48 minutes - 33.6 MBSend us a Text Message. William Wordsworth changed the way we use language. He changed the way we investigate human beings. This is the romantic legacy. The usage of imagination to delve into the inner world of man. As Hugo put it "There is one thing grander than the ocean, that is the sky; there is one thing grander than the sky that is the interior of man's soul." This is one of the major projects of the romantics, to illustrate the depth of man's inner world. How, for instance, an event...
Metaphysical Mondays #5 The Undertaking by John Donne
September 09, 2019 17:00 - 15 minutes - 10.9 MBSend us a Text Message. Opposing his own view in "Go and Catch a Falling Star," Donne explains to us how to be braver than one of the nine worithes (Hector, Alexander the Great, Julius Ceasar, Joshua, David, Judas Maccabeus, King Arthur, Charlemagne, Godfrey of Boullion.) To be greater then these men, in one area at least, we must simply love a woman for her inner virtues as opposed to her outer virtues. Oh and it's even better to not tell anyone about it!
SMP #19: The Thorn by William Wordsworth
September 08, 2019 13:00 - 1 hour - 43.9 MBSend us a Text Message. In this balladic poem, Wordsworth tells the tale of a "solitary thorn," or British Hawthorn Bush, that "marks the spot where a pregnant woman, driven from town and forced to give birth alone on the heath, died from famine, pain and cold and anguish." In typical Wordsworthian fashion, however, he was not at all interested in the tale of the woman. he was interested in how a tale like that, a stormy night and a solitary thorn can have a deep impact on the mind and so...
Metaphysical Mondays #4: Go! And Catch a Falling Star by John Donne
September 02, 2019 12:00 - 21 minutes - 14.6 MBSend us a Text Message. On today's episode you'll learn how a 16th century poet delivers a punch line!
SMP #18 Lines Written in Early Spring by William Wordsworth
September 01, 2019 12:00 - 58 minutes - 40.4 MBSend us a Text Message. What does contemplation look like and how can we know it when we are doing it? This will be one of the themes to be explored on this episode. On this Sunday Morning Poetry I'll be reading not only the Lines poem but a passage from Wordsworth's The Prelude and a poem from Robert Burns. We will learn much about a pivotal shift in the early Wordsworth's philosophy and poetry. It is the shift that made Romanticism... Well... Romanticism. In Lyrical Ballads there are s...