>Thought I'd throw in a few dots to follow if you're interested :-)
Yes, Thanks for these dots - much appreciated
Whitman is actually the co-subject with Reznikoff of my troubled troubled
essay - the grass there is surely the anti-grass of Eliot's dryness - Eliot
prays for renewal, but Whitman is sure of it, the cycle - in the Mahler,
ewig, ewig...
I'm really interested in writers who Create the grass as a style, but then
Eliot came in & crashed down on me -
Whitman hears a territory singing, but What The Thunder Said hears ... grass
over the tumbled graves - the dead singing?
The Carlyle is v. interesting that he says "grass" and not "grain of sand" -
but grass & sand seem to conflate as ideas of "world flesh"
My trouble is - if i pursue "grass" as a metaphor it will go everywhere and
i'd e the hopeless & hapless mower -
Edmund
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