The Numinous Pastorals of Robert Wells

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Topics discussed in this episode include:

-The Cambridge Three: Dick Davis, Robert Wells, Clive Wilmer

-My Interview with Dick Davis

-The Stanford Poets: Thom Gunn, Edgar Bowers, Yvor Winters, etc.

-Virgil's Georgics

-The Idylls of Theocritus

-Wells poems discussed: "A Caution," "Deus Loci," "The Unnamed Pool," "The Bathing Place," "The Last of Summer."

-Episodes on the pathetic fallacy here and here

-Apophasis

-"Le Cimetiere Marin" by Paul Valery

-"The Slow Pacific Swell" by Yvor Winters

-Sensory deprivation tanks

-Mysticism vs. Love

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