10-01-2023, 01:30 AM
In my room there's a box, a chest, that represents the World's Knowledge. It's empty, or is it? Above that, on the ascending pile of books and rubbish, is a stopped clock, representing Time. On the plateau at the top is a circle of seals and sigils of swirling demons surrounding Padmasambhava, who sits there, perfectly at ease, enjoying.
As for TB's continuity, back to Allen Tate: it's good to read T. S. Eliot, John Crowe Ransom and Robert Penn Warren. Compare and contrast.
I've read a book called The Poetic Vision of Robert Penn Warren three times over the last ten years. The first two times, I read it without really paying attention. Made it to the end and that was it. Took in things subliminally most likely. This time, I read it with full attention. The author claims three main themes: Passage, the Undiscovered Self, Mysticism.
I like to read books of poetry criticism. I like the rhythms and the timbres of prose and poetry written by different people making one work.
Wordsworth, Housman and Dylan Thomas are also good comparisons and contrasts with the Passage, Pre- and Post- lapsarian, theme.
With Warren in the nineteen-sixties, at that point in his writing, is perfect to break into this combo: Bishop, Robert Lowell, Schwartz and Berryman.
Keeping in mind the more musical and blatantly Modern Romantic trio of Stevens, Hart Crane and a reluctant musician: Robinson Jeffers.
With Berryman, it's good to keep your Shakespeare handy, along with the works of Stephen Crane.
Remember Joyce and other Irish writers and French when plowing through the brief life and work, same thing, of Delmore Schwartz.
Don't forget to perforate the sides of your square with the sharp tongues of Pope, Byron and James Merrill.
There you have 20th Century America Poetry like a bastard in a handbasket.
With Berryman, you can read Yeats alongside him in a dark closet with a view of a rural urban area with flat hills and trees.
With the Merrill bunch, return to Auden and add Henri Cole.
https://www.loc.gov/item/88752460/?
Robert Penn Warren's poems are well-guarded online!
https://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/A_7C9...1BAEBB538B
As for TB's continuity, back to Allen Tate: it's good to read T. S. Eliot, John Crowe Ransom and Robert Penn Warren. Compare and contrast.
I've read a book called The Poetic Vision of Robert Penn Warren three times over the last ten years. The first two times, I read it without really paying attention. Made it to the end and that was it. Took in things subliminally most likely. This time, I read it with full attention. The author claims three main themes: Passage, the Undiscovered Self, Mysticism.
I like to read books of poetry criticism. I like the rhythms and the timbres of prose and poetry written by different people making one work.
Wordsworth, Housman and Dylan Thomas are also good comparisons and contrasts with the Passage, Pre- and Post- lapsarian, theme.
With Warren in the nineteen-sixties, at that point in his writing, is perfect to break into this combo: Bishop, Robert Lowell, Schwartz and Berryman.
Keeping in mind the more musical and blatantly Modern Romantic trio of Stevens, Hart Crane and a reluctant musician: Robinson Jeffers.
With Berryman, it's good to keep your Shakespeare handy, along with the works of Stephen Crane.
Remember Joyce and other Irish writers and French when plowing through the brief life and work, same thing, of Delmore Schwartz.
Don't forget to perforate the sides of your square with the sharp tongues of Pope, Byron and James Merrill.
There you have 20th Century America Poetry like a bastard in a handbasket.
With Berryman, you can read Yeats alongside him in a dark closet with a view of a rural urban area with flat hills and trees.
With the Merrill bunch, return to Auden and add Henri Cole.
https://www.loc.gov/item/88752460/?
Robert Penn Warren's poems are well-guarded online!
https://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/A_7C9...1BAEBB538B