Ep 18: We All Die Together
NB: It turns out the earlier version of the Ralegh poem I discuss appears in the earlier version of the same anthology in which I found it, this being the one edited by the great Arthur Quiller-Couch!
Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– Daniel Dennett’s speech to the 2009 American Atheists Conference, “The Evolution of Confusion”
– My hypocritical participation in the next Able Muse Zoom Poetry Reading
– White male poetry professors over the age of sixty!
– The New Oxford Book of English Verse, ed. Helen Gardner
– Two versions of a poem by Walter Ralegh
– Shelly Kagan’s lecture series “Death”
– The great Elizabeth Brient
– Atul Gawande’s book Being Mortal
– The morality play Everyman
– Keats’ poem “Ode to a Nightingale”
– William Cory’s poem “Heraclitus”
– Rachel Wetzsteon’s poem “Nightingales”
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