An episode from 2/4/22: Here are five more poems going back to 1600 or so. Louise Bogan realizes mysticism isn’t it, anymore than hedonism; Elizabeth Barret Browning continues to “to shoot/My soul's full meaning into future years”; William Blake is his visionary self; and Anne Bradstreet and Henry Vaughan, both born in the early seventeenth century, sound positively modern, writing a poem about gazing at one’s own book, or a poem about the tree that the book once was: Louise Bogan (1897-1970), “The Alchemist”⁠ ⁠Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861), Sonnets from the Portuguese #41 (“I thank all who have loved me in their hearts”)⁠ William Blake (1757-1827), from Milton ⁠(“I come in self-annihilation”)⁠, from Jerusalem(⁠“Trembling I sit day and night”⁠) Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672), “The Author to Her Book” ⁠Henry Vaughan, (1621-1695) “The Book” Don’t forget to join Human Voices Wake Us on Patreon, or sign up for our newsletter here. You can also support the podcast by ordering any of my books: Notes from the Grid, To the House of the Sun, The Lonely Young & the Lonely Old, and Bone Antler Stone.

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