Episode 173: By Heart: On Memory, Poetry, and Form

In this computerized age, we tend to see memory as a purely cerebral faculty. To memorize is to store information away in the brain in such a way as to make it retrievable at a later time. But the old expression "knowing by heart" calls us to a stranger, more embodied and mysterious take on memory. In this episode, Phil and JF endeavour to recite two poems they've learned by heart, as a preamble to a discussion on poetry, form, and the magic of memory.

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REFERENCES

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Kubla Khan” (poetryfoundation.org/poems/43991/kubla-khan)

Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “A Musical Instrument” (poetryfoundation.org/poems/43729/a-musical-ins…)

Dave Hickey, “Formalism” (approachestopainting.wordpress.com/wp-content/…) from Pirates and Farmers

Weird Studies, Episode 109-110 on “The Glass Bead Game” (weirdstudies.com/109)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Biographia Literaria (gutenberg.org/files/6081/6081-h/6081-h.htm)

Weird Studies, Episode 42 with Kerry O Brien (weirdstudies.com/42)

Francis Yates, Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition (bookshop.org/a/18799/9780226950075)

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