LIVE @ St. Thomas: "The Tear" by Richard Crashaw

Text of poem here

Soundtrack to this episode

Topics discussed in this episode:

-The University of St. Thomas, Houston

-"The Flaming Heart" by Mario Praz

-Giambattista Marino

-Metaphysical vs. Baroque

-The poetry of rapture

-The Greek Anthology

-Laudianism

-Crashaw's Teresa poems

-Mixed meter and phantom beats

-"Venus and Adonis" by Billy Shakes

-The saintly grief in your wedding ring

-Aurora, not Selene!

-"The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia" by Sir Philip Sidney

-"On a Drop of Dew" by Andrew Marvell

-The nurturing sublime

-A humanized heaven in human eyes

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Art by David Anthony Klug

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 (/ /)