Bookcase 3 Shelf 5_Poetry and Myth

Added: 2026-06-01

[00:00:08]Hello book. This is bookcase three of the library tour and shelf one, two, three, four, shelf five.

[00:00:18]But you'll notice I have to put something up here and stuff. I'm starting to consolidate a little bit because I run into these books like this that are stuck on top of other books.

[00:00:28]So, and and I I've gotten rid of a few books. I not a lot, but but a few. So, I'm going to run through some of these with you.

[00:00:39]Um, and uh let's just let's just get started. So, this first one is quite a book uh edited by Alex Peringer and TVF Broen.

[00:00:53]Um, this is the Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics.

[00:00:59]Quite a beast.

[00:01:01]Italian poetry, French poetry, deconstruction, Chinese poetry, Brazilian poetry, music and poetry, poetry theories of so big old beast. Good reference. I'm gonna actually just put that right up there because that's where she's going to go.

[00:01:18]What did I do? What did I do? What did I do? disaster. I just Who' I pick on? Our magnificent bastard tongue. All right.

[00:01:28]And I can probably fit one more there.

[00:01:32]Let's go with something thin.

[00:01:35]We'll go with the That isn't going to work. We'll just keep doing what we doing. How to read a poem by Edward Hirs and Fall in Love with Poetry.

[00:01:51]Yeah.

[00:01:52]So, just what it says it is. And is that going to fit in there? My golly, it will. So, now we're on to this shelf.

[00:02:03]This is quite a book. This is The Limits of Art.

[00:02:07]Uh, let's see here. What was I reading?

[00:02:10]Homer.

[00:02:12]Okay.

[00:02:14]So, this is a uh Come on. Keep my fingers over. Bologen series 12. Pantheon books. Bologen series 12. The limits of art. Poetry and pros. Chosen by ancient and modern critics. Collected and edited by Huntington KMS. And this thing came out.

[00:02:37]This is a fourth print in 1960.

[00:02:40]And it's just packed. Sir Walter Rally on death.

[00:02:47]Uh, let's see what we got here. O to Joy.

[00:02:53]Um, Glories of Athens. So, you'll see here I have the Greek and then a translation.

[00:03:01]That's a magnificent one.

[00:03:04]Put that right on the shelf. So, let's go here.

[00:03:11]So, we have the Norton introduction to poetry, seventh edition.

[00:03:16]Wonderful. Wonderful book. Older editions I like just as well.

[00:03:22]You'll hear that from me often.

[00:03:25]Miller Williams, Patterns of Poetry and Encyclopedia of Forms. Sorry about that.

[00:03:30]That one decided to take a header. And then the poet's guide to poet uh poetry, Mary Kenzie, second edition. um meter, further counted forms, poetic terms, just wonderful book.

[00:03:50]See if I can get these to stay in place.

[00:03:52]So, I haven't been doing it like this, so maybe I shouldn't be doing it like this.

[00:03:58]Then this, I actually got this when I was part of Writer's Digest. I was a subscriber and I took a course. This is the art and craft of poetry by uh Michael Bugasia.

[00:04:09]Absolutely marvelous book. If you run into this one and you want to sit down and write poetry, good guide. Really good guide. One of the better writer digest books. Let's see. Let's try this. Uh the making of a poem, a Norton anthology of poetic forms by Mark Strand and Aan Boland.

[00:04:32]Just what it says. So right here we have meter shaping forms.

[00:04:39]Uh let's see. Yeah, just a good book.

[00:04:49]Then we have Francine Mazize uh the discovery of poetry, a field guide to writing and uh reading and writing poems. And then uh she's the author Andrea Tuskin's son.

[00:05:02]May you remember her a book and a movie I enjoyed.

[00:05:10]This is the great modern poets uh the best poetry of our times edited by Michael Schmidt also big William Carlos Williams page and the St. Vincent Malay Robert LOL you get the idea. Oh, this is just I hope nobody out there is laughing.

[00:05:35]That would be terribly cruel, but justified. Just read this one like a month or two ago. Stamps of class, reflection on poetry and social class by Gary Lenhard.

[00:05:49]Um, who is a lecturer in English at Dartmouth College.

[00:05:54]I just went over the hood museum at Dartmouth last week uh for they have a thing for the uh 250th anniversary of the United States. This is Paul Valerie on the art of poetry.

[00:06:10]Famous book not a very good paperback but the copy I have.

[00:06:17]All right.

[00:06:22]Then we have Robert Pinsky, The Situation of Poetry, Contemporary Poetry and Its Traditions. Another wonderful book. Wonderful poet.

[00:06:34]Don't have quite as much. The dust is getting me of his stuff as I'd like. Oh, I have a a a quote here, a little blurb from Helen Vendler, who will run into her books here in a bit.

[00:06:51]Uh, see, Robert Pinsky again. Singing school, learning to write and read poetry.

[00:07:00]It's just what it says it is.

[00:07:05]Uh, Mary Oliver, a poetry handbook.

[00:07:08]Pretty famous book. Uh, good poet and a good book. I really like it.

[00:07:16]The Exaltation of Forms. Contemporary poets celebrate the diversity of their art. Uh, edited by Annie Fitch, Finch, excuse me, and Katherine Varns.

[00:07:27]Uh, let's see. Raymond S. Patterson, William J. Higginson, Penny Harter, Thomas M. Dish, Maxine Cuman, Alice Fulton, David Layman, Charles Bernstein. They're all talking about different forms of poetry.

[00:07:49]Then we have introductions American poets on one aspect of their poems edited by Robert Pac and Jay Perini who teaches over at Mbury um and has written some wonderful stuff biography of Robert Frost. a book that was made into the movie about Toltoy and the name's escaping me. Good writer. So yeah, just poets talking about their poems.

[00:08:21]Uh more conversations with contemporary poets, range of the possible if you see that. Um and there's going to be I'll just give you a list right there. You can hit pause on your camera to take care of that.

[00:08:42]Then we have Harold Bloom. Of course we do. Where shall wisdom be found?

[00:08:48]Wind in Skenctity, I think.

[00:08:54]Let's see here.

[00:08:57]So he almost had a brush. Well, he either did or didn't have a brush with death.

[00:09:03]A near brush with death.

[00:09:06]instead of just a brush with death. I guess um it's talking about the greatest thinkers and writers of the western world. It's probably a little out of place there. Then uh ruin the sacred truths poetry and belief from uh Bible to the present also by Harold. He was quite a character. I absolutely like him although he could be I imagine he could be a handful.

[00:09:31]So, I'm going to shift some more books up there as we go.

[00:09:37]Um, trying to give you as best a vision of what this is all about as I can. But, uh, this is very productive. I'm enjoying it. I hope you are, too. Thank you, bookie.