Poems Ancient and Modern @PoemsAncientMod
A poetry newsletter by Joseph Bottum and Sally Thomas poemsancientandmodern.substack.com Joined January 2024-
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How about a Christmas song? "We will escape the sadness. / There lives now grace and gladness." youtube.com/watch?v=XsOv1_…
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"Christmas by its very nature wants to get out of hand. Wants to be vulgar. Wants to be neither puritan nor tasteful." My new Christmas essay in @FreeBeacon. freebeacon.com/culture/its-ch…
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My look at Christmas in @dcexaminer. washingtonexaminer.com/premium/325394…
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Milton and I translate Horace @PoemsAncientMod: For whom bind’st thou / In wreaths thy golden hair, // Plain in thy neatness? Who is it for, that blond hair-do // so careful to seem careless? poemsancientandmodern.substack.com/p/todays-poem-…
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On this podcast, the wonderful Peter Robinson and I discuss Christmas and my new collection of short stories and essays about the season.
On this podcast, the wonderful Peter Robinson and I discuss Christmas and my new collection of short stories and essays about the season.
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"Joseph Bottum has produced the most enjoyable Christmas stories you’ll ever read—and the most moving," says Peter Robinson. Should you get a copy of my new Christmas book? @p_m_robinson amazon.com/Frankincense-G…
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For the feast of St. Cecilia, patroness of music, today, I look at Dryden's ode. I've always felt a devotion to her, as much, anyway, as a non-musician can, lighting a candle in her name every Nov. 22. poemsancientandmodern.substack.com/p/todays-poem-…
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For your amusement, a series of clips from a @praxiscircle interview I did in Washington this spring. praxiscircle.com/blog/new-contr… The descriptions on the webpage between the clips give a reasonable overview of much of my thought.
Yowza. Barzun on teaching as the crushing of art.
Yowza. Barzun on teaching as the crushing of art.
MILTON! thou shouldst be living at this hour: England hath need of thee: she is a fen Of stagnant waters… You do want to read @arrroberts' careful look at Wordsworth's sonnet, "London, 1802." poemsancientandmodern.substack.com/p/todays-poem-…
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Joseph Bottum asks, "Should poets be worried?" "A year and a half ago, I asked ChatGPT to compose some poetry: Me: Write heroic couplets about carp...." poemsancientandmodern.substack.com/p/sound-and-se…
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Happy birthday to Sir Walter Scott! To celebrate, @PoemsAncientMod has a reading of his superb ballad “Lochinvar,” taken from his long narrative poem Marmion (1808; Marmion also gave us the lines often misattributed to Shakespeare, “Oh, what a tangled web we weave / When first we…
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At @PoemsAncientMod this week, we've read Keats, Edgar Lee Masters, and now Robert Southey: poemsancientandmodern.substack.com/p/todays-poem-… AND we're running a subscription special to celebrate our half-year publication anniversary. What better time to come join us?
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It's been six months since we’ve launched Poems Ancient and Modern, and we’ve reached more than 5,000 subscribers and followers. In honor of that half year, we're offering a limited-time yearly rate of half off for paid subscribers! poemsancientandmodern.substack.com/p/a-special-su…
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Mother whose heart hung humble as a button On the bright splendid shroud of your son, Do not weep. War is kind. #StephenCrane's poem today at @PoemsAncientMod. poemsancientandmodern.substack.com/p/todays-poem-…
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Up today @PoemsAncientMod with Today’s Poem: Edmund Spenser's "One Day I Wrote Her Name Upon the Strand," Sonnet 75 of the Amoretti. open.substack.com/pub/poemsancie… @amjuster
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Happy Birthday, Conrad Aiken. Today’s Poem: Morning Song of Senlin open.substack.com/pub/poemsancie… @amjuster @PoemsAncientMod
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Come buy, you lusty gallants, These simples which I sell; In all your days were never seen like these For beauty, strength, and smell. It's another open-thread Thursday at @PoemsAncientMod --- come chat with us! poemsancientandmodern.substack.com/p/sound-and-se… @amjuster
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Have some fun with Today’s (Wednesay light-verse) Poem: An Hellespont of Cream open.substack.com/pub/poemsancie… @amjuster @PoemsAncientMod
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