Collected ProseJames Wright, Anne Wright, Edith Anne Wright A collection of Wright's essays on the language of poetry |
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... dark and deep , Won from the void and formless infinite . Thee I re - visit now with bolder wing , Escap't the Stygian Pool , though long detaind In that obscure sojourn , while in my flight Through utter and through middle darkness ...
... dark and deep , Won from the void and formless infinite . Thee I re - visit now with bolder wing , Escap't the Stygian Pool , though long detaind In that obscure sojourn , while in my flight Through utter and through middle darkness ...
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... darkness . J.M .: What I had in mind was — well , Robert Bly uses the word “ dark ” quite a bit . But he does it somehow differently from you . With Bly , I think he wants the dark to remain dark and mysterious . He does not mean to ...
... darkness . J.M .: What I had in mind was — well , Robert Bly uses the word “ dark ” quite a bit . But he does it somehow differently from you . With Bly , I think he wants the dark to remain dark and mysterious . He does not mean to ...
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... dark " is almost an automatic thing ? You simply expect it to be there in a Bly poem . I mean it's hard , maybe impossible , to find a Bly poem without the word " dark " in it . Sometimes the words “ dark ” and “ darkness ” come up four ...
... dark " is almost an automatic thing ? You simply expect it to be there in a Bly poem . I mean it's hard , maybe impossible , to find a Bly poem without the word " dark " in it . Sometimes the words “ dark ” and “ darkness ” come up four ...
Contents
The Stiff Smile of Mr Warren | 239 |
The Terrible Threshold | 249 |
A Study and a Selection | 256 |
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