"Through The Water" by James Matthew Wilson

Text of poem here

Topics discussed in this episode include:

-My experience in New York's formalist bohemia

-James Matthew Wilson and his books

-Jacques Maritain & Etienne Gilson

-The iambic decameter effect

-Broken-backed lines

-"The Castle of Thorns" by Yvor Winters

-"The Slow Pacific Swell" by Yvor Winters

-"Mother Carey's Hen" by David Yezzi

-My episode on the above poem

-Encountering water as chaoskampf

-John 13 and 14

-Keats' notion of the "mansion of many apartments"

-"Before the Law" by Franz Kafka

-Paganism as spiritual childhood

-The Univocity vs. Analogy debate between Scotus and Aquinas

-Matthew 4 and 14

-The fisher can't fish himself!

-We should all be more like that giant monster of God, Behemoth

-Job 40

-Edgar Bowers and Sturge Moore

-Baptized in the Sublime

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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 (/ /)