Peter Quartermain wrote:
>
> That is devastating news. What work his was, its inventiveness, grace,
> music, wit, and sheer thought as well as, yes, its connectedness to who and
> what we are and how. Attentive to possibility.
>
> That he is so little read is, as Keston put it, yes, intimations of a crisis
> in context per se.
>
> Peter
>
>"This is the body of light."
Yes and yes and yes. I think it was Guy Davenport who pointed out he
had the transcendence right from the start. [grabs "Geography of the
Imagination": yup, p194] In the shadow, perhaps, of ARK are some lovely
early growths that should also be preserved: "A Line of Poetry, A Row of
Trees" and "Book of the Green Man". British poets of a new generation
might enjoy seeing what a Furriner 30 odd years ago made of Wordsworth &
Kilvert's landscapes, seasons & moods in that last-named book: Johnson's
seeings-through, if you will . And another model of staying with what
he had to see & his way of saying it, regardless of where fashions moved
the field.
Pete.
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