Cep's Poetry Notes
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"On True and False Taste in Music"
William Collins (1721-1759) expresses his strong opinions about what makes for good and bad music. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit christinaepetrides.substack.com/subscribe
"In View of Death" and "Last Verses"
Mortimer Collins (1827-1876) looks forward to heaven and appreciates the presence of God in life. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit christinaepetrides.substack.com/subscribe
"An October Picture"
Thomas Stephens Collier (1842-1893) describes the rich colors of autumn. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit christinaepetrides.substack.com/subscribe
"Youth and Age"
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) looks back at his youth and notes changes in old age. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit christinaepetrides.substack.com/subscribe
"Address to Certain Gold-Fishes"
Hartley Coleridge (1796-1849) looks at life in a glass bowl. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit christinaepetrides.substack.com/subscribe
"Natura Naturans"
Arthur Hugh Clough (1819-1861) fantasizes about a fellow train passenger. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit christinaepetrides.substack.com/subscribe
"Words for Parting"
Mary Clemmer (1839-1884) contemplates impending separation. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit christinaepetrides.substack.com/subscribe
"Soldanella"
Sarah D. Clark (19th C.) draws from a snowdrop plant in the Alps a broader lesson about ordinary people called to do great things. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit christinaepetrides.substack.com/subscribe
"If You Love Me"
Luella Clark (1832-1915) urges her suitor not to express love verbally, but through action. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit christinaepetrides.substack.com/subscribe
"Dead Love"
Phoebe Cary (1824-1871) compares past love to a corpse lying between the couple that killed it. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit christinaepetrides.substack.com/subscribe
"Spent and Misspent"
Alice Cary (1820-1871) writes of the dangers of procrastination. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit christinaepetrides.substack.com/subscribe
"Today"
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) urges us to use our time. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit christinaepetrides.substack.com/subscribe
"Ask Me No More"
Thomas Carew (1595-1640) describes the natural and mythical glories that are embodied in his beloved. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit christinaepetrides.substack.com/subscribe
"How Delicious is the Winning" and "The River of Life"
Thomas Campbell (1777-1844) writes of the contradictory nature of love and of our perspective on time as we age. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit christinaepetrides.substack.com/subscribe
"Sun of the Sleepless" and "Inscription"
George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824) writes of the moon and of his dog. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit christinaepetrides.substack.com/subscribe
The Greatest Poet Name Ever, Etc.
A pause for remarks on p. 89-91 of The Cambridge Book of Poetry and Song (1882). This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit christinaepetrides.substack.com/subscribe
"The Busts of Goethe and Schiller"
William Allen Butler (1825-1902) indulgences in a fit of narrative Germanophilia celebrating the lives and memorials of the great writers Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and his friend Friedrich Schiller. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit christinaepetrides.substack.com/subscribe
"Love"
Samuel Butler (1612-1680) says love is too much for mortals to handle, then compares it to a certain fermented beverage. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit christinaepetrides.substack.com/subscribe
"Delay"
Frances Louisa Bushnell (1834-1899) celebrates the thrill of delayed romantic satisfaction. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit christinaepetrides.substack.com/subscribe
"Stanzas in Prospect of Death"
Robert Burns (1759-1796) admits that the indulgence of his passions don’t make for good standing with the Almighty. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit christinaepetrides.substack.com/subscribe
"The Crowded Street"
William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878) observes various pedestrians and speculates on their characters and their futures before drawing a larger lesson from the scene. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit christinaepetrides.substack.com/subscribe
"How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix"
Robert Browning (1812-1889) describes a desperate human (and animal) effort to convey news across time and space before the advent of modern technology. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit christinaepetrides.substack.com/subscribe
"To Flush, My Dog"
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) describes the peerlessness of her pet pup. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit christinaepetrides.substack.com/subscribe
"The Adieu" and "Long Ago"
Henry Howard Brownell (1820-1872) compares falsehood to a youthful fling and truth to the cold bride of maturity in “The Adieu” and waxes retrospective in “Long Ago.” This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit christinaepetrides.substack.com/subscribe
"Losses"
Frances Brown (1818-1864, according to the Cambridge Book of Poetry and Song; surname Browne, 1816-1879, according to Wikipedia) compares the gravity of loss. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit christinaepetrides.substack.com/subscribe
"The Marriage of Despair"
Maria Gowen Brooks (1794-1845) drew on her unhappy romantic experiences to create this poem about the results of “settling” for a non-soulmate. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit christinaepetrides.substack.com/subscribe
A Pause for Remarks
Why you should try reading and writing poetry. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit christinaepetrides.substack.com/subscribe
"Last Lines"
Emily Bronte (1818-1848) was the first of the literary sisters to die. Her older sister Charlotte identified this poem as her final composition. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit christinaepetrides.substack.com/subscribe
"Life Will Be Gone Ere I Have Lived"
With her two sisters, Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855), the author of Jane Eyre, published poetry before making a name for herself as a novelist. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit christinaepetrides.substack.com/subscribe
"If This Be All"
Anne Bronte (1820-1849), best known as the author of the novel The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, also published poetry along with her sisters (all using male pseudonyms). This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit christinaepetrides.substack.com/subscribe
"The Petrified Fern"
Mary Bolles Branch (1840-1922) wrote books for children as well as travel literature; here she depicts the creation and recovery of an fossil. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit christinaepetrides.substack.com/subscribe
"Epithalamium"
John G. C. Brainard (1795–1828), a sometime lawyer, wrote a beautiful wedding poem before dying of tuberculosis. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit christinaepetrides.substack.com/subscribe
"Beyond Recall"
Mary E. Bradley (1835-1930), best known for a radical Science Fiction novel wherein good-mannered blonde women clone themselves, talks about being brought back from an early death into longterm disappointment. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit christinaepetrides.substack.com/subscribe
"In Garfield's Danger"
Anna C. Brackett (1836-1911) writes of the national desire that the dying President James Garfield will recover in 1881 from the gunshot wounds that ultimately killed him. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit christinaepetrides.substack.com/subscribe
"To Time"
William Lisle Bowles (1762-1850) explores the notion that time heals sorrows. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit christinaepetrides.substack.com/subscribe
"Love's Reward" and "The Difference"
Francis W. Bourdillon (1852-1921) shares a pessimistic view of love's availability in these two poems. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit christinaepetrides.substack.com/subscribe
"The Lesson of the Bee" and "Love"
American writer Anna Lynch (1815-1891) was traveling in Italy, doing research on the public school system, when she met Italian professor Vincenzo Botta; he came to the US and they married two years later. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit christinaepetrides.substack.com/subscribe
"The Inner Calm"
Horatius Bonar (1808-1889), aka “Horace” Bonar to his friends, who lost five of his nine children in infancy or childhood, wrote many hymns still sung today. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit christinaepetrides.substack.com/subscribe
"Awakening of the Poetical Faculty"
George Henry Boker (1823-1890) seems to have been inspired to write verse by much grander influences than I can claim. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit christinaepetrides.substack.com/subscribe
"Love of the Country"
Robert Bloomfield (1766-1823) wrote about the lives of rural laborers, and here celebrates his love for the environment far from the city. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit christinaepetrides.substack.com/subscribe
"The Tiger"
William Blake (1757-1827) included his famous description of a fearsome feline and its genesis in his collection Songs of Experience. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit christinaepetrides.substack.com/subscribe
"Summer Rain"
William Cox Bennett (1820-1895) celebrates the benefits of timely precipitation. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit christinaepetrides.substack.com/subscribe
"On the Tombs in Westminster Abbey"
Playwright Francis Beaumont (1584-1616) reflects on the dust that was human glory in one of the more magnificent of the world’s sepulchers in London. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit christinaepetrides.substack.com/subscribe
"The Picket-Guard"
Ethel Lynn Beers (1827-1879) describes the last evening of an American Civil War Union soldier in her best-known poem. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit christinaepetrides.substack.com/subscribe
"The First Gray Hair"
Thomas Haynes Bayly (1797-1839) describes a major crisis in a woman’s life: when she finds her first gray hair. She realizes death approaches and she’s no longer a belle. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit christinaepetrides.substack.com/subscribe
"The Dead Bee"
Fletcher Bates (1831-1903) compares poets to productive insects, whose contributions may be minute, but are nonetheless valuable. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit christinaepetrides.substack.com/subscribe
"Beauties of Morning"
James Beattie (1735-1803) describes a bucolic village morning almost three hundred years ago; so many natural sounds! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit christinaepetrides.substack.com/subscribe
"Consecration," "The Old Year and The New," and "Woodbines in October"
Charlotte Fiske Bates (1838-1916), editor of The Cambridge Book of Poetry and Song, contemplates a lover’s mood, the idealisation of the past, and Autumn. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit christinaepetrides.substack.com/subscribe
"To Freedom"
Joel Barlow (1754-1812) preaches what he practiced—that freedom leads to equality, social and economic justice, and general blessing. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit christinaepetrides.substack.com/subscribe
"The Covered Bridge"
David Barker (1816-1874), a now-forgotten American poet, compares the tomb to a covered bridge. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit christinaepetrides.substack.com/subscribe