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>What I wanted to say, Douglas, is that when the feeling is truly powerful
>with the understanding of human complexities, its wretchedness, miseries,
>and joys, and is used by someone with an enormous expressiveness of
>language, its music, harmonies, ancient and contemporary caprices, then
>the poem arises. Call it what you will -- beauty, if you will, but
>surely such a poem has more flesh and blood than that.
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To which I can only say, Yea verily, Harriet.
Doug
Douglas Barbour
Department of English
University of Alberta
Edmonton Alberta Canada T6G 2E5
(h) [780] 436 3320 (b) [780] 492 0521
http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/dbhome.htm
Cinder of the lexical drift.
Susan Howe
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