- 129
- Episodes
- 8
- Transcribed
- 58
- Ratings
- Bi-weekly
- Cadence
- 2022
- First episode
About Versecraft
Exploring the art of poetry through the craft of some of the world's best but most underrated poems.
- Publisher
- Elijah Perseus Blumov
- Category
- arts
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 19 Sept 2022
- Latest episode
- 8 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
8 of 129 episodes have a transcript.
8 Oct 2026
"Perspective On Might" by John Poch
13 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
"Epistemology of Poetry" by Robert Conquest
1 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
"The Wind Is Round" by Howard Moss
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"Epistemology of Poetry" by Robert Conquest
Published 13 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] The imagination itself is a kind of altered key. a liturgical instrument with which to unlock new realms of the sacred. In the penultimate quatrain, we finally get down to brass tacks. What is it that poems do? They attempt light reconciling done and dreamt. In other words, poems use what little light we have, those facts of perception we can discern, as a jumping-off point to imaginatively explore the darkness, the great mysteries of being. We must recall that this is a matter of epistemology, not metaphysics. Conquest is not saying that poetic flights of imagination lead to ultimate truth. He is simply saying that poetic poetry attempts to achieve understanding through a synthesis of perception and imaginative inference. […]
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.8 / 5
- 34 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.7 / 5
- 24 ratings
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- 57
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- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 82
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