NB: It turns out the earlier version of the Ralegh poem I discuss appears in the earlier version of the same anthology in which I found it, this being the one edited by the great Arthur Quiller-Couch!

Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:

– Daniel Dennett’s speech to the 2009 American Atheists Conference, “The Evolution of Confusion”

– My hypocritical participation in the next Able Muse Zoom Poetry Reading

– White male poetry professors over the age of sixty!

– The New Oxford Book of English Verse, ed. Helen Gardner

– Two versions of a poem by Walter Ralegh

– Shelly Kagan’s lecture series “Death”

– The great Elizabeth Brient

– Atul Gawande’s book Being Mortal

– The morality play Everyman

– Keats’ poem “Ode to a Nightingale”

– William Cory’s poem “Heraclitus”

– Rachel Wetzsteon’s poem “Nightingales”

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