Interesting about Poe, Henry. I'll have to reread that WCW take on him in
_In the American Grain_ 'mathematical' was it? Sorry, pushed for time here
but on numerological (alone) there's a book I've still to read 30 years on,
_Silent Poetry: Essays in numerological analysis (ed. Alastair Fowler,
Routledge) and I see there Chaucer's _Book of the Duchess; _Sir Gawain_;
_The Faerie Queene_; _Amoretti_; _Lycidas_; Dryden's _St. Cecilia's Day_ ;
Shadwell's ditto ; and _Joseph Andrews_
No Smart. But surely he'd be into that? And interestingly so.
Best,
John
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Onderwerp: Re: Fw: re: totality
Good point, John. Encrypted poetics seems to appear
at long intervals. Or maybe it ran from the riddle poems to the late
Renaissance and Baroque - there are a lot of symbolic/numerical games
in that literature - only to fade out with the 18th century. Mallarme
was involved, then, in giving riddles (in a general sense) an
integral role once more. In the shadow of Poe - a master of riddles
who nevertheless didn't fold them into his poetry.
Henry
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