Some poems are like painter's mountains and others are like climber's mountains. Call me presumptuous, but I think I begin the podcast with a metaphor that Alexander Pope would approve of. We then look at the atomic entity of the heroic couplet and how the genre of the "verse essay" appeared not long after the arrival of coffee in London. I then "Wander Off On One" about how the tweet is the millennial equivalent of the heroic couplet and whether there can be objective standards in art.

Intro and background: 00.00 An Essay on Criticism (Part 1) by Alexander Pope: 12.47 Analysis: 24.26 Niall Wanders Off On One...... Wooo!!!: 54.42