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Currently Playing: My Harvard Dissertation | Spiritual Poetics

Wordsworth's Spiritual Poetics. Teaching my Harvard dissertation through a lecture series on Versed, Community in March-April, I'll lead us through Wordsworth's most celebrated lyric poems. Intro 0:00-0:45 Spiritual Poetics 0:45-3:17 Wordsworth's Spiritual Poetics 3:17-14:09 The Course 14:09-15:40 Correction: Around 6:15, I mark the first foot as a trochee and not an iamb. It IS an iamb. The second foot is the spondee. If these terms are new to you, and if you want a quick crash-course on meter, I do have a video on that here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmaBvLPl9VI Sign up for the live course with a live-access subscription on Versed here: https://versedcommunity.mn.co/ And check out the syllabus here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1iSeuzfwtFMh8PBonmiiDy89dL-rNHRMNWSQcQB8YgQs/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.1w01lpdsc2yi