The Via Negativa of R.S. Thomas

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Topics discussed in this episode include:

R.S. Thomas's poems:

-Mediations

-Kneeling

-Via Negativa

-The Absence

-Revision

-Ernest Hilbert

-Alexander Fayne's essay on R.S. Thomas

-Pascal's "Night of Fire"

-Apophatic theology

-John Scotus Erigena, Philo, Pseudo-Dionysius, Weil, etc.

-Keats's "Ode On A Grecian Urn"

-Milton's "On His Blindness"

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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 (/ /)