"Trolling For Blues" by Richard Wilbur

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Topics discussed in this episode include:

-Varieties of Modernism: The Big Six

-Formalism and Cosmic Rebellion

-Wilbur's audacious sanity

-The Idea Of Literary Celebrity At Key West

-Accent vs. Stress

-Measuring my stress levels

-And isn't it ionic... don't you think?

-The temptation to see ourselves in Nature

-"I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud" by William Wordsworth

-"The Garden" by Andrew Marvell

-Wilbur's version of Altered States

-Or maybe, Wilbur's version of Go Into The Water

-God dreams of fishes

-Nature itself is the strangest thing you could imagine

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