My pleasure.
At 10:54 AM 8/26/2007, you wrote:
>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:
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>>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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>
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