"Horses on the Camargue" by Roy Campbell

Read the poem here.Topics discussed in this episode include:-Transcending the smallness of one's time-The Flaming Terrapin-The Voorslag Affair-Campbell against the world, i.e. punching Steve Spender in the face -Ambivalent stanzas-The Waste Land" by T.S. Eliot-"Sunday Morning" by Wallace Stevens-"Kubla Khan" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge-"The Whiteness of the Whale" by Herman Melville-A Nietzschean response to apocalypse 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 (/ /)