Renaissance: Aftermath (A Short History of American Poetry)Knowing Poetry with Timothy E. G. Bartel2024-05-04 | The Civil War and Reconstruction propel American poets and poetry into new frontiers and dimensions.The TankaKnowing Poetry with Timothy E. G. Bartel2024-10-19 | Let's talk about the oldest of Japanese verse forms, the Tanka. Poems read from Saigyo, Gazing at the Moon, translated by Meredith McKinney.
Quotations from Kerouac include: "San Francisco Blues" (Poem) and On the Road (Novel)Lowells Skunk HourKnowing Poetry with Timothy E. G. Bartel2024-09-07 | Let's explore Robert Lowell's classic poem "Skunk Hour," from the collection Life Studies (1959).Who is Seamus Heaney?Knowing Poetry with Timothy E. G. Bartel2024-08-31 | Let's get to know the greatest Irish poet of the late 20th Century, Seamus Heaney.
Books and poems referenced include: "Digging" from Death of A Naturalist (1966) Beowulf (1999) The Burial at Thebes (2004) "Human Chain" from Human Chain (2010) "Had I Not Been Awake" from Human Chain (2010)Philip Larkins Church GoingKnowing Poetry with Timothy E. G. Bartel2024-08-24 | Let's get to know a major British poem of the mid-20th century: Philip Larkin's "Church Going."The Wild Prosody of Paul Reveres RideKnowing Poetry with Timothy E. G. Bartel2024-08-17 | The opening lines of Longfellow's Paul Revere's Ride is a good case study in wild variants of prosody.
Note: Paul Revere's Ride was written in 1860 and appeared in the January 1861 issue of the Atlantic Monthly. It was later republished as the opening poem in Longfellow's Tales of A Wayside Inn (1863).What should Knowing Poetry cover next?Knowing Poetry with Timothy E. G. Bartel2024-08-09 | Let me know in the comments what topics YOU want to see covered in Knowing Poetry videos.Prosody MasterclassKnowing Poetry with Timothy E. G. Bartel2024-08-03 | It's time to return to the subject of prosody and take a deeper dive than ever before.The First English PoetKnowing Poetry with Timothy E. G. Bartel2024-07-26 | We meet the first English poet, Caedmon, in a fascinating manuscript called The Ecclesiastical History of the English People, written by the Venerable Bede in the 8th century AD.Popular Poetry and the New Millennium (A Short History of American Poetry)Knowing Poetry with Timothy E. G. Bartel2024-05-26 | In this final video of our series, we look at the popular poetry that rose to prominence around the turn of the millennium. Poets and poems referenced include Rod McKuen ("A Cat Named Sloopy"), Billy Collins ("Litany"), and Mary Oliver ("The Summer Day")
Cover Image of Mary Oliver.The Mid-Century (A Short History of American Poetry)Knowing Poetry with Timothy E. G. Bartel2024-05-18 | Poetry heads in new and raw directions in the mid-20th century.
Poems referenced include:
Harlem, by Langston Hughes The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner, by Randall Jarell A Supermarket in California, by Allen Ginsberg Daddy, by Sylvia Plath
Cover image of Randall JarrellModernism (A Short History of American Poetry)Knowing Poetry with Timothy E. G. Bartel2024-05-12 | Between 1914 and 1916, poetry changed rapidly in America, ushering in a new, Modernist age of verse.
Cover image of Ezra Pound.April Poetry NewsKnowing Poetry with Timothy E. G. Bartel2024-04-26 | Eclipses, Taylor Swift, and more in poetry news this April.A Short History of American Poetry: RenaissanceKnowing Poetry with Timothy E. G. Bartel2024-04-20 | The nineteenth century saw a honest-to-goodness renaissance in American poetry. Let's explore it.A Short History of American Poetry: Revolution!Knowing Poetry with Timothy E. G. Bartel2024-04-13 | As we move into the revolutionary era, the focus turns to three poets: Freneau, Wheatley, and Barlow.
Cover Image: Portrait of Joel Barlow by Robert FultonA Short History of American Poetry: BeginningsKnowing Poetry with Timothy E. G. Bartel2024-04-06 | Let's explore American poetry, starting with the colonial era.Poetry is Better than FictionKnowing Poetry with Timothy E. G. Bartel2024-03-23 | My most controversial opinion revealed.A. E. Stallings PoetryKnowing Poetry with Timothy E. G. Bartel2024-03-16 | We dive into A. E. Stallings latest collection, This Afterlife, and take a look at the first poem in the collection: "Postcard from Greece".The Oxford Professor of Poetry: An IntroductionKnowing Poetry with Timothy E. G. Bartel2024-03-08 | Since 1708, the Oxford Professor of Poetry has had an odd and important role in the promotion of poetry in the English-speaking world.
thenewstack.io/instagram-brought-literary-success-feminist-poet-r-h-sinWhat Does it Mean to Know Poetry?Knowing Poetry with Timothy E. G. Bartel2024-01-06 | Let's kick off 2024 with an exploration of what the title of this channel means.Announcements for the New YearKnowing Poetry with Timothy E. G. Bartel2023-12-28 | A couple projects are coming down the pipeline in 2024, including the second edition of Calafia: An Adventure!Longfellows Psalm of LifeKnowing Poetry with Timothy E. G. Bartel2023-12-21 | A recitation of Longfellow's poem "A Psalm of Life" to round out the year.Is Writing Poetry Difficult?Knowing Poetry with Timothy E. G. Bartel2023-12-09 | How difficult is it to write a poem? How difficult should it be? If all great poetry comes from inspiration, shouldn't it be easy to write when you're inspired?Success in Poetry?Knowing Poetry with Timothy E. G. Bartel2023-11-30 | Thanks to your comments, I have a new topic to address this week, namely "what counts as success in poetry?" I propose 3 (or 4?) different ways of looking at poetic success.Reading Sylvia Plaths Free VerseKnowing Poetry with Timothy E. G. Bartel2023-11-04 | We explore how to read Sylvia Plath's free verse poems by taking a look at "Fever 103°" from her final collection, Ariel.Confessionals and New FormalistsKnowing Poetry with Timothy E. G. Bartel2023-10-31 | The late 20th century saw a pendulum swing from free verse to more formal verse in American poetry.The Genius of Shakespeares SpeechesKnowing Poetry with Timothy E. G. Bartel2023-10-19 | Let's break down a speech from Hamlet to see how Shakespeare's poetic genius works.Is Shakespeare Really That Great?Knowing Poetry with Timothy E. G. Bartel2023-10-11 | Literary Twitter got all huffy about some criticism of Shakespeare this weekend. In this video, I offer a few thoughts.The Conclusion of Tintern AbbeyKnowing Poetry with Timothy E. G. Bartel2023-09-30 | In which we explore the final section of Wordsworth's masterful lyric poem.The Center of Tintern AbbeyKnowing Poetry with Timothy E. G. Bartel2023-09-24 | Part 2 of our discussion of Tintern Abbey, where Wordsworth reflects on his past self.Tintern Abbey: The Greatest Romantic Poem?Knowing Poetry with Timothy E. G. Bartel2023-09-16 | Wordsworth's "Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey..." is one of the greatest English poems of the Romantic era.Romanticism 101Knowing Poetry with Timothy E. G. Bartel2023-09-08 | Okay, but what actually IS Romanticism? Here's the beginning of an answer.What is a Romantic Poem?Knowing Poetry with Timothy E. G. Bartel2023-09-05 | "Romantic Poetry" is just another term for love poetry, right? Well, not exactly.Dizains and VillonKnowing Poetry with Timothy E. G. Bartel2023-08-26 | The Dizain is a lesser known poetic form from medieval France, and it was perfected by the legendary outlaw poet Francois Villon.Can AI write poetry?Knowing Poetry with Timothy E. G. Bartel2023-08-22 | Can AI write poetry? There are some good reasons to think the answer is "no."
Passage quoted from William Wordsworth, "Preface to Lyrical Ballads." (1801)Summer Poetry ReadingKnowing Poetry with Timothy E. G. Bartel2023-05-25 | Here are the poetry books I'm dipping into this summer:
The Complete Poems of Enheduanna, translated by Sophus Helle. Yale University Press.
Carl Phillips, Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020. FSG Adult.
A.E. Stallings, This Afterlife: Selected Poems. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux.
Andrew Frisardi, The Moon on Elba: Poems. Wiseblood Books.New Poem: What Flesh is Heir ToKnowing Poetry with Timothy E. G. Bartel2023-05-23 | "What Flesh is Heir To" is a blank verse sonnet from my new collection, A Crown for Abba Moses: New and Selected Poems.