Mea culpa: Yes, I know "Sailing to Byzantium" was written like 20 years after "Conversion." By the time I realized my anachronism, it was too late. Something something Borges retroactive influence... 


Topics discussed in this episode include:

 

-Mary Renault's "The King Must Die." 

-Decadence begets Primitivism

-Gauguin, Picasso, Stravinsky

-Gustave Kahn and vers libre

-T.E. Hulme's essay, Lecture On Modern Poetry

-T.E. Hulme's essay, Romanticism and Classicism

-Symbolism vs. Imagism

-The conservative flavor of 20th century Classicism 

-Science, Politics, and Gnosticism by Eric Voegelin

-Gettin' zesty

-Autumn by T.E. Hulme

-Conversion by T.E. Hulme

-The saga continues...

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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 (/ /)