Haydn In Plain Style: An Interview With Dick Davis

Topics discussed in this episode include:  E.M. Forster“The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam” by Edward FitzgeraldThomas HardyW.H. Auden“Troilus and Criseyde” by Geoffrey Chaucer“Vis and Ramin” by Gorgani“Wisdom and Wilderness” by Dick DavisThom GunnYvor WintersFulke GrevilleEdgar BowersMozart vs. Haydn“The Creation” by Joseph Haydn“Requiem” by W.A. Mozart“Symphony 9” by Franz Schubert“Requiem” by Michael HaydnThe Creative and the EroticThe Spirituality of Old AgeWilliam Wordsworth“The Poetry of Sturge Moore” by Edgar Bowers (thanks Shane!)Atheism and MoralityEmbracing Nothingness “A Personal Sonnet” by Dick Davis Text of poem:A Personal SonnetHow strange this life is mine, and not another,this jigsaw... each irrevocable piece.That bad, unfinished business of my brother,dead at nineteen; my gadding years in Greeceand Italy; life lived, not understood;a sunset in Kerala, when it seemedthe sun had risen on my life for good.All this was real, but seems now as if dreamed.The presences I've loved, and poetry--faces I cannot parse or paraphrasewhose mystery is all that they reveal;the Persian poets who laid hands on meand whispered that all poetry is praise:these are the dreams that turned out to be real. Support the showVISIT MY WEBSITE HERE.BUY VERSECRAFT MERCH HERE.VISIT THE VERSECRAFT SUBSTACK HERE.Please subscribe, rate, and review! Thanks so much for listening.You can leave me a tip, support the podcast, or request a commission here! TikTok:  @versecraftSend me a note at: [email protected] favorite poetry podcasts for: Sharp thoughts and cutting truths (Matthew): Sleerickets  Lovely introspection and sensitive reflection (Alice): Poetry Says The landscape of Ohioan poetry (Jeremy): Poetry Spotlight  Supported in part by The Ohio Poetry AssociationArt by David Anthony KlugList 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 (/ /)