NB: I got the couplet of 130 slightly wrong. It goes like this: “And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare / As any she belied with false compare.”
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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– My conversation with Elijah & David Gosselin for Age of Muses
– The Heresy of Paraphrase by Cleanth Brooks
– Pre-order Brian’s new book The Optimists!
– Holy Sonnet XIV by John Donne
– Tired by Fenton Johnson
– Sonnet 130 by William Shakespeare
– Sonnet 29 by William Shakespeare
– Ode on a Grecian Urn by John Keats
– A Colleague Confesses by Carl Dennis
– Against Interpretation by Susan Sontag
– When I Mean I by Jonathan Farmer
– David Gosselin’s Age of Muses podcast (as of this link, our episode isn’t …
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