John Donne and Andrew Marvell
Host John McCoy
Had we but world enough and time, we could talk about more poems than just these two: John Donne’s “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning” and Andrew Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress.” Liz Riegel joins the discussion on meter, metaphor, and metaphysics.
Listen to this episode (40 minutes)
Links
- The Incomparable Radio Theater
- Kunst der Fuge
Poetry reader David Loehr’s podcast.
Poetry background music adapted from William Byrd, making use of midi files by John Sankey: “Copyright © 1939-2006 under the Berne convention in order to protect the right of all to continue to use them freely. Anyone may copy, link to, or distribute any of them as they are as much as they wish as long as as long as this notice of copyright and permission to further copy is distributed with all copies.”
