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Talking in All: A Conversation on Poetry and Quakerism Between Philip Gross and Laurence Lerner
This considered conversation between two widely published poets of different generations investigates the relationship between their creative work and the Quaker connections in their lives. In the process, both examine examples of their own and each other’s poetry. Drawing on both their academic disciplines, in one case, literary studies, in the other, creative writing, they explore the possible tension between the simple integrity historically advocated by Friends and the imaginative sympathy with diverse experiences required by poetry and fiction. Are the demands of morality compatible with those of aesthetics, and how does eloquence square with plain speaking? In what sense can their writing be seen as Quaker, or themselves as Quaker poets? Lerner starts by asserting that there is no necessary connection between his Quaker and his poet self; Gross finds such a connection in a style of attentiveness, akin to listening. Both recognize the limitations of words to describe deep and complete experience. Poetry, with its pushing of language to the point of breakdown (a process both playful and serious) can point, like Quaker worship, into the wordlessness beyond.
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ARGUMENT
has several senses in crit. Loosely used, it can mean *plot, i.e., a sequence of events; this meaning
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Browning's Painters
This essay examines all Browning's poems about paintings in order to explore his (not always consistent) view of art history, particularly of the importance of Greek sculpture and mythology in later centuries, and of how medieval painting changed into that of the Renaissance. Discussion of \"Pictor Ignotus\" and (especially) of \"Andrea de Sarto\" has often been influenced by psychoanalytic thinking, but the problems in applying psychoanalysis to poems have not always been recognized. Finally, a discussion of \"One Word More\" enables us to explore Browning's (or his wife's) uneasiness with the dramatic monologue.
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EMOTION
I. Reader’s Emotion II. Poet’s Emotion III. Recent Developments
A poem involves two people, writer and reader; and a discussion
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Poet versus Abstract Noun: An Agon
To become fully conscious of it means becoming conscious of it not merely as an instance of anger, but as this quite peculiar anger. 4 \"For all the history of grief / An empty doorway and a maple leaf\": MacLeish's poem states the same doctrine, a preference for the individualized particular over the general, as we can see from the articles: the history of grief brings together all the disparate experiences under a single concept, an empty doorway offers one particular case. [...] Lever points out that the opening lines recall the words of the marriage service: \"If any of you know cause or just impediment why these persons should not be joined together.\"
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