Figures of Thought: Speculations on the Meaning of Poetry & Other EssaysEssays by the masterful Howard Nemerov. |
Contents
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Skylark | 3 |
Figures of Thought | 18 |
About Time | 30 |
Copyright | |
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abstract appear assertion beautiful become beginning believe Blake Bloom called criticism Dante Dante's dark definition doubt dream Escher example existence experience Ezra Pound fact feeling figure Finnegans Wake Gigadibs happened human I. A. Richards idea illusion imagination imagist instance interpretation Kenneth Burke knowledge learned least lines live look M. C. Escher marvelous matter MAURITS CORNELIS ESCHER meaning metaphor mind Modern Poetry mysterious myth nature never object Owen Barfield painting perhaps phrase poem poet poet's poetic proverb proves the rule question reader reality realm relation religion right in language seems sense silence sort speak spinning-jenny story strange T. S. Eliot teacher teaching tell theme things thought tion tradition trying turn Ulysses understand universe visible vision W. H. Auden Wallace Stevens William Carlos Williams words writing Yeats Yeats's York