From John Dryden to Billy Collins, the cult of Charles Bukowski to Instagram poetry, professor Johnny Payne joins us to discuss his latest polemics and re-examine some of the sacred cows of literature.
After discussing Johnny’s latest polemics, we have an extended dialogue on the nature of timeless verse and today’s golden age in poetry.
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The Case Against Lower-Case Poetry
One might think we have Wordsworth’s theory of poetic art to blame for the creep of Instagram and “street” poetry and the subsequent disfiguration of lyric into meme. In the abstract, there is nothing wrong with Wordsworth’s description of the source of poetry as “the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.” Yet is he in some way responsible for the …
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