"Sunlight" by Thom Gunn

Mea culpa: Several times I refer to "Sunlight" as "Sunshine." Blame it on the LSD (which was called "Orange Sunshine").

Text of poem here

Topics discussed in this episode include:

-Let me know what you think I should teach!

-On The Morning Of Christ's Nativity by John Milton

-The Gas Poker by Thom Gunn

-The Movement

-Syllabics as gateway drug

-Lucy In the Sky With Demanding Forms

-Thom Gunn, Renaissance man

-Golding's Metamorphoses

-Philosophical religions

-A cursory and woefully incomplete history of Platonism

-Adonais by that son-of-a-Bysshe Percy Shelley

-An Essay On Man by Alexander Pope

-Plato's Symposium (see the famous Diotima section)

-Christmas Day 2023 was the day I learned the sun was green

-Sunday Morning by Wallace Stevens

-A song of experience in search of deeper innocence

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