<p>In this episode of Preston's Poetry Podcast ----- I'm wasting your time with a rant about why I (usually) hate couplets. It's also another "screw you" to some 19th-century poets, which is always nice. I'll be comparing the great couplet use of Robert Frost with Robert Louis Stevenson -- "<a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/148652/nothing-gold-can-stay-5c095cc5ab679" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Nothing Gold Can Stay</a>" and "<a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47431/the-land-of-nod" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Land of Nod</a>" (respectively, the latter I hate.) Plus a cameo appearance of one of my favorites, "<a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/30206/briggflatts" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Briggflatts</a>" by Basil Bunting.</p><br><p>Producer Gustav Worm-Leth</p><p>Outro Yentl Tijssens</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>