Read & found myself nodding at your whole post, Mark, but liked this
especially. 'Intentional field' sounds like something we can all work
with.
Thanks for that.
Doug
On 25-Aug-07, at 10:32 AM, Mark Weiss wrote:
> The poet's "intention" is of course unknowable, despite even a perfect
> knowledge of context, but one can certainly posit an "intentional
> field," into which not all ideas about the poem are admitted.
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