"The Marriage" by Yvor Winters

Mea culpa: Sorry about the little skip in the concluding reading-- don't know why that happened.

Text of the poem here.

Topics discussed in this episode include:

-"In Defense of Reason" by Yvor Winters

-"A Winters Tale" on SLEERICKETS

-"The Seriousness of Yvor Winters" by David Yezzi

-"The Absolutist: Yvor Winters" by Jan Schreiber

-"What You Need to Know About Yvor Winters" by James Matthew Wilson (also includes other cool links!)

-"Wisdom and Wilderness" by Dick Davis

-The morality of poetry and evaluative criticism

-The Wintersian legacy -Yes, he really does sound like that

-The superiority of the heroic couplet

-Flesh, spirit, and sexual-religious vegetables

-Love vs. lust

-Poems that outlast everlasting love

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