Topics mentioned in this episode: -The use of the term “poetry” and the death of the genuine article -Building metrical literacy -My essay “The Iron Lyre” -Modern small-souledness -My essay “The Poisoned Well: Melville and Gnosticism” -My essay “The Monumentalist Manifesto” -“Science, Politics, and Gnosticism” by Eric Voegelin -“The Whiteness of the Whale” in Herman Melville’s “Moby Dick” -“The Gnostic Gospels” ed. Elaine Pagels -“Fragment of a Lost Gnostic Poem of the 12th Century” b...