Topics

Difficulty and Pleasure

An Art-Making Animal

Difficulty and Pleasure

3:09

The Craving for Difficulty

Difficulty and Pleasure

2:39

The Universe is Expanding

Difficulty and Pleasure

3:52

Understanding or Interpreting?

Difficulty and Pleasure

5:23

Form as a Quality

“The Sound of Poetry” By Jay Anania

Form as a Quality

6:58

Whitman: “Vigil Strange”

Form as a Quality

5:36

Formal and Pretentious?

Form as a Quality

2:14

Frost: “To Earthward”

Form as a Quality

4:34

Freedom & Meaning

Halliday: “The Students”—Free to Jabber

Freedom & Meaning

2:51

Almost Flippantly

Freedom & Meaning

2:04

Mockery, Surprise, Play

Freedom & Meaning

1:08

“They Shorten Tedious Nights”

Freedom & Meaning

2:40

Kidding and Tribute

The Negative of an Image

Kidding and Tribute

3:04

“Mr. Eliot’s Sunday Evening Postscript”

Kidding and Tribute

4:08

What Makes Writing Funny?

Kidding and Tribute

1:57

Epistolary Teasing

Kidding and Tribute

3:05

Music and Poetry

Scatting and Basketball

Music and Poetry

3:11

Spontaneous and Reactive

Music and Poetry

2:48

Consciousness, Relearning How to Read

Music and Poetry

2:10

Robert Pinsky: “Street Music”

Music and Poetry

8:17

Teasing, Flirting, and Courting

John Donne, II: Specious Arguments Leading to Reality

Teasing, Flirting, and Courting

2:50

John Donne, I: Thinking in the Sonnet

Teasing, Flirting, and Courting

3:03

Shakespeare 129: “The heav’n that leads men to this hell”

Teasing, Flirting, and Courting

3:19

Montagu: “Champagne and a chicken”

Teasing, Flirting, and Courting

2:43

What is "Great"

Ferry, Bishop, Yeats

What is "Great"

2:32

“Of what is past, or passing, or to come”

What is "Great"

2:23

The Best Kind of Memorization

What is "Great"

3:05

Building Up to the Immeasurable

What is "Great"

1:30