{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/64dea0c3156644001135fc74/6751110f57aa3cdaf37004e4?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"24. Couplets suck! (a Rant) - Robert Louis Stevenson \"Land of Nod\", Basil Bunting \"Briggflatts\", and Robert Frost \"Nothing Gold Can Stay\"","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/64dea0c3156644001135fc74/1733366003788-622f4be9-7407-4d86-9e51-2859b3eb4544.jpeg?height=200","description":"<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><p><br></p><p>Producer Gustav Worm-Leth</p><p>Outro Yentl Tijssens</p>","author_name":"Preston Losack"}