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“A Ragged Patch of Glow”

“A Ragged Patch of Glow”

By Wyoming Catholic College

Reflections on works of great lyric poetry from Dr. Glenn Arbery, President of Wyoming Catholic College
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“A Ragged Patch of Glow:” Episode Thirty-Three

“A Ragged Patch of Glow”May 07, 2020

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“A Ragged Patch of Glow:” Episode Forty-Five

“A Ragged Patch of Glow:” Episode Forty-Five

Today, Dr. Arbery recites Richard Wilbur’s “Advice to a Prophet.”

Jun 30, 202007:15
“A Ragged Patch of Glow:” Episode Forty-Four

“A Ragged Patch of Glow:” Episode Forty-Four

In honor of Father’s Day, Dr. Arbery reflects on Robert Hayden’s “Those Winter Sundays.”

Jun 21, 202006:43
“A Ragged Patch of Glow:” Episode Forty-Three

“A Ragged Patch of Glow:” Episode Forty-Three

In today’s episode, Dr. Arbery discusses a poem that has been much in the public consciousness of late, William Butler Yeats’s “The Second Coming.”

Jun 17, 202008:44
“A Ragged Patch of Glow:” Episode Forty-Two

“A Ragged Patch of Glow:” Episode Forty-Two

After a brief hiatus to host a successful in-person graduation for the Wyoming Catholic College Class of 2020, Dr. Arbery returns to his beloved poetry with William Butler Yeats’s “Sailing to Byzantium.”

May 28, 202008:43
“A Ragged Patch of Glow:” Episode Forty-One

“A Ragged Patch of Glow:” Episode Forty-One

Dr. Arbery on Seamus Heaney’s “Blackberry-Picking.”

May 15, 202006:43
“A Ragged Patch of Glow:” Episode Forty

“A Ragged Patch of Glow:” Episode Forty

Today, Dr. Arbery recites and reflects upon Donald Hall’s “Amos.”

May 14, 202005:45
“A Ragged Patch of Glow:” Episode Thirty-Nine

“A Ragged Patch of Glow:” Episode Thirty-Nine

Dr. Arbery reflects on Thomas Nashe’s eerily-relevant “Litany in Time of Plague.”

May 13, 202006:24
“A Ragged Patch of Glow:” Episode Thirty-Eight

“A Ragged Patch of Glow:” Episode Thirty-Eight

Dr. Arbery with the second episode in his two-part series on Wallace Stevens’s “Of Modern Poetry.”

May 12, 202008:36
“A Ragged Patch of Glow:” Episode Thirty-Seven

“A Ragged Patch of Glow:” Episode Thirty-Seven

Dr. Arbery with the first in a two-part reflection on Wallace Stevens’s “Of Modern Poetry.”

May 11, 202008:12
“A Ragged Patch of Glow:” Episode Thirty-Six

“A Ragged Patch of Glow:” Episode Thirty-Six

Dr. Arbery analyzes John Donne’s “Resurrection.”

May 10, 202006:29
“A Ragged Patch of Glow:” Episode Thirty-Five

“A Ragged Patch of Glow:” Episode Thirty-Five

Inspired by the “Virtual Poetry Hour” that poet Dana Gioia so generously hosted for the Wyoming Catholic College community, Dr. Arbery discusses Mr. Gioia’s “The Burning Ladder.”

May 09, 202006:12
“A Ragged Patch of Glow:” Episode Thirty-Four

“A Ragged Patch of Glow:” Episode Thirty-Four

Dr. Arbery continues his exploration of T. S. Eliot’s poetry with “Aunt Helen.”

May 08, 202003:29
“A Ragged Patch of Glow:” Episode Thirty-Three

“A Ragged Patch of Glow:” Episode Thirty-Three

Dr. Arbery discusses the importance of being less terrified of T. S. Eliot’s poetry, such as “The Boston Evening Transcript.”

May 07, 202007:59
“A Ragged Patch of Glow:” Episode Thirty-Two

“A Ragged Patch of Glow:” Episode Thirty-Two

In today's episode, Dr. Arbery recites and reflects upon a WCC favorite, W. B. Yeats’s “The Lake Isle of Innisfree.”

May 06, 202006:31
“A Ragged Patch of Glow:” Episode Thirty-One
May 05, 202006:26
“A Ragged Patch of Glow:” Episode Thirty

“A Ragged Patch of Glow:” Episode Thirty

In today’s episode, Dr. Arbery thinks about Richard Wilbur’s “Mind.”

May 04, 202005:56
“A Ragged Patch of Glow:” Episode Twenty-Nine
May 03, 202005:29
“A Ragged Patch of Glow:” Episode Twenty-Eight

“A Ragged Patch of Glow:” Episode Twenty-Eight

Dr. Arbery examines Herman Melville’s “A Utilitarian View of the Monitor’s Fight.”

May 02, 202007:34
“A Ragged Patch of Glow:” Episode Twenty-Seven

“A Ragged Patch of Glow:” Episode Twenty-Seven

Dr. Arbery reflects on Thomas Hardy’s “In Time of ‘The Breaking of Nations.’”

May 01, 202006:07
“A Ragged Patch of Glow:” Episode Twenty-Six

“A Ragged Patch of Glow:” Episode Twenty-Six

Dr. Arbery discusses heroism in the context of W. B. Yeats’s “An Irish Airman foresees his Death.”

Apr 30, 202005:58
“A Ragged Patch of Glow:” Episode Twenty-Five

“A Ragged Patch of Glow:” Episode Twenty-Five

Dr. Arbery sits in his backyard and reflects on A. E. Housman’s “Loveliest of trees, the cherry now.”

Apr 29, 202005:03
“A Ragged Patch of Glow:” Episode Twenty-Four

“A Ragged Patch of Glow:” Episode Twenty-Four

Dr. Arbery examines Edmund Waller’s “Go, Lovely Rose.”

Apr 28, 202004:43
“A Ragged Patch of Glow:” Episode Twenty-Three

“A Ragged Patch of Glow:” Episode Twenty-Three

Dr. Arbery discusses Emily Dickinson’s “A Bird, came down the Walk.”

Apr 27, 202006:05
“A Ragged Patch of Glow:” Episode Twenty-Two

“A Ragged Patch of Glow:” Episode Twenty-Two

Dr. Arbery recites three poems by Catharine Savage Brosman, “Broken Landscape,” “Aspen Grove,” and “White Water.”

Apr 26, 202007:07
“A Ragged Patch of Glow:” Episode Twenty-One

“A Ragged Patch of Glow:” Episode Twenty-One

Dr. Arbery, reflecting on  John Crowe Ransom’s “Bells for John Whiteside’s Daughter.”

Apr 25, 202005:07
“A Ragged Patch of Glow:” Episode Twenty

“A Ragged Patch of Glow:” Episode Twenty

In today’s episode of “A Ragged Patch of Glow,” Dr. Arbery hopes that Gerard Manley Hopkins’s “Spring” will prove prophetic.

Apr 24, 202004:17
“A Ragged Patch of Glow:” Episode Nineteen

“A Ragged Patch of Glow:” Episode Nineteen

In honor of Shakespeare’s birthday, Dr. Arbery reflects on Claudius’s “O, my offense is rank” monologue from “Hamlet.”

Apr 23, 202009:54
“A Ragged Patch of Glow:” Episode Eighteen

“A Ragged Patch of Glow:” Episode Eighteen

Dr. Arbery on W. H. Auden’s “Musée des Beaux Arts” and Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s “Landscape with the Fall of Icarus.”

Apr 22, 202006:49
“A Ragged Patch of Glow:” Episode Seventeen

“A Ragged Patch of Glow:” Episode Seventeen

Dr. Arbery doubles up today, reciting Ben Jonson’s “Still to be neat, still to be dressed” and George Herbert’s “Jordan (I).”

Apr 21, 202005:18
“A Ragged Patch of Glow:” Episode Sixteen

“A Ragged Patch of Glow:” Episode Sixteen

Dr. Arbery reflects on Wendell Berry’s “The Peace of Wild Things.”

Apr 20, 202005:11
“A Ragged Patch of Glow:” Episode Fifteen

“A Ragged Patch of Glow:” Episode Fifteen

Dr. Arbery recites John Keats’s “On First Looking into Chapman's Homer.”

Apr 19, 202005:29
“A Ragged Patch of Glow:” Episode Fourteen

“A Ragged Patch of Glow:” Episode Fourteen

Stealing a tiny bit of Sir Patrick Stewart's thunder, Dr. Arbery takes a look at Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 65.”

Apr 18, 202008:38
“A Ragged Patch of Glow:” Episode Thirteen

“A Ragged Patch of Glow:” Episode Thirteen

Dr. Arbery recites “one of the best poems I know for anyone who has a bad temper,” Timothy Steele’s “Sapphics Against Anger.”

Apr 17, 202005:02
“A Ragged Patch of Glow:” Episode Twelve

“A Ragged Patch of Glow:” Episode Twelve

Dr. Arbery discusses Frederick Turner‘s “The Distribution.”

Apr 16, 202005:48
“A Ragged Patch of Glow:” Episode Eleven

“A Ragged Patch of Glow:” Episode Eleven

Dr. Arbery discusses Ezra Pound’s “The River-Merchant’s Wife.”

Apr 15, 202005:51
“A Ragged Patch of Glow:” Episode Ten

“A Ragged Patch of Glow:” Episode Ten

Dr. Arbery, thoroughly enjoying himself with William Carlos Williams’s “This Is Just To Say.”

Apr 14, 202004:26
“A Ragged Patch of Glow:” Episode Nine

“A Ragged Patch of Glow:” Episode Nine

Dr. Arbery recites a particularly fitting poem for Easter Monday, George Herbert‘s “Easter Wings.”

Apr 13, 202006:10
“A Ragged Patch of Glow:” Episode Eight

“A Ragged Patch of Glow:” Episode Eight

For Good Friday, Dr. Arbery reflects on Gerard Manley Hopkins‘s “No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief.”

Apr 10, 202003:46
“A Ragged Patch of Glow:” Episode Seven

“A Ragged Patch of Glow:” Episode Seven

Dr. Arbery on Gerard Manley Hopkins‘s “Binsey Poplars.”

Apr 09, 202006:19
“A Ragged Patch of Glow:” Episode Six

“A Ragged Patch of Glow:” Episode Six

Dr. Arbery recites and analyzes a WCC favorite, Gerard Manley Hopkins‘s “God‘s Grandeur.”

Apr 08, 202008:54
“A Ragged Patch of Glow:” Episode Five

“A Ragged Patch of Glow:” Episode Five

Dr. Arbery recites and reflects on Richard Wilbur’s “Two Voices in a Meadow.”

Apr 07, 202004:05
“A Ragged Patch of Glow:” Episode Four

“A Ragged Patch of Glow:” Episode Four

Dr. Glenn Arbery reflects on William Wordsworth‘s “Surprised by Joy.”

Apr 06, 202005:27
“A Ragged Patch of Glow:” Episode Three

“A Ragged Patch of Glow:” Episode Three

Dr. Glenn Arbery discusses Richard Wilbur‘s “Mayflies.”

Apr 05, 202006:28
“A Ragged Patch of Glow:” Episode Two

“A Ragged Patch of Glow:” Episode Two

Dr. Glenn Arbery discusses Ezra Pound‘s “In a Station of the Metro.”

Apr 05, 202003:02
“A Ragged Patch of Glow:” Episode One

“A Ragged Patch of Glow:” Episode One

Dr. Glenn Arbery discusses William Wordsworth‘s “Nuns Fret Not at Their Convent's Narrow Room.”

Apr 04, 202005:30
“A Ragged Patch of Glow:” Introduction

“A Ragged Patch of Glow:” Introduction

“I have started a blog just to look at a lyric poem a day—insights, glimpses of emotion, intuitions of beauty. I don’t have a program of instruction in mind, just a way to draw on the heights and depths of the capacities of language. I hope that the poems bring a moment or two of clarity.” -- Dr. Glenn Arbery, President of Wyoming Catholic College

Apr 04, 202003:52