Hermetic America: Twentieth Century America, 1985
by: Roger Weir
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Hermetic America: Twentieth Century America
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Thursdays, Oct 3, 1985 to Dec 26, 1985
This series explores 20th century American history by focusing on a diverse group of figures spanning architecture, poetry, drama, religion, esoteric philosophy, and speculative fiction. Episodes will feature Frank Lloyd Wright, Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, E. E. Cummings, Wallace Stevens, William Faulkner, Tennessee Williams, Theodore Roethke and Robinson Jeffers, Thomas Merton, Christ in Alexandria, Khigh Dhiegh, A. E. van Vogt. This is the fourth quarter of a year-long examination of "Hermetic America" by Roger Weir. This presentation series was originally delivered in 1985.
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- Frank Lloyd Wright
The Century's Master Architect; His Controlling Symbols of the Natural House; The Living City as Settings for Democratic Women's Liberation.
Recorded: October 3, 1985
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watch video - Ezra Pound
Power Broker of Culture; The Breaker of Power Kulture; The Vision of Personae and the Cantos; Going Native in Medieval History.
Recorded: October 10, 1985
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- T. S. Eliot
Protege Become Master and Mastery Absorbed Back into tradition; The American Goes Native in English History.
Recorded: October 17, 1985
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- E. E. Cummings
The Lyric Poet's Larger Works; The Enormous Room and Eimi-Journeys to Conscious Cosmology
Recorded: October 24, 1985
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- Wallace Stevens
The Poet of Vision Beholding: "Nothing That is Not There and the Nothing That Is"
Recorded: October 31, 1985
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- William Faulkner
Concentrating on His Nobel Prize Novel, A Fable, His Epic of the Individual Surviving Our Mythological Armageddon.
Recorded: November 7, 1985
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- Tennessee Williams
The Famous Cycle of Plays Where Personal Tensions Rise to Mythic Resolution
Recorded: November 14, 1985
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- Theodore Roethke and Robinson Jeffers
Two of the Best Unsung Poets Bringing the American Experience to the Poetical Shores of the Pacific Ocean
Recorded: November 21, 1985 play audio
- Thomas Merton
The Spiritual Pilgrimage to Inner Christian Meditation and Outer Buddhist Meditation
Recorded: December 5, 1985 audio part 1
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- Khigh Dhiegh
The American Taoist Master, His Epochal Commentary on the I Ching: The Eleventh Wing and the Cycle of I Ching Book of Days (1975-1983)
Recorded: December 19, 1985 play audio
- A. E. van Vogt
The Science Fiction Great Whose Life and Works Probe the Interpenetration of Mind and Technology in Our Cosmic Setting Leading to the Future
Recorded: December 26, 1985 audio part 1
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