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Tag Archives: W.B. Yeats
From Mere Bellies to the Bad Shaman, 3
(If you felt the previous section jumped around a bit, you’ll love this, which tries to get from Nietzsche to Carol Ann Duffy in as few paragraphs as possible. Again the argument is trying to favour metaphor’s capacity for comparison … Continue reading
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Tagged Allen Ginsberg, Andrew Motion, Anti-Oedipus, Apollonian, Aristotle, Carol Ann Duffy, Christopher Isherwood, Coleridge, Creative Writing, Deterritorialisation and Reterritorialisation, Dionysian, Edwin Morgan, Félix Guattari, Fiona Samoson, Freud, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Gilles Deleuze, Gorbachov, Hesiod, Humphrey Carpenter, John Betjeman, Julian Jaynes, Keats, Lenin, Mallarmé, Nietzsche, Oedipalisation, Plato, Poetry, Putin, Richard Hugo, Rimbaud, Robert Lowell, Socrates, Stalin, Stephen Spender, Ted Hughes, The Birth of Tragedy, The Cooked and the Raw, The Poet Laureate, The Poetics, The Republic, W.B. Yeats, W.H. Auden, Wordsworth, Yeltsin
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Watching for Dolphins
What does it mean, beyond the simple delight at your own good luck, to look out of your window at the River Tay, and see dolphins swimming past? Or, as happened to me once last year, to pick up the … Continue reading
Embodying delight (some formulae)
Alan Gillis, Hawks and Doves, The Gallery Press, 79pp; Fiona Sampson, Common Prayer, Carcanet, 74pp; Lynne Wycherley, North Flight, Shoestring Press, 70pp. There are a number of now quite stately premisses on which we still rely when we come to … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Gillis, Charles Darwin, Colette Bryce, Derek Mahon, Douglas Dunn, Edwin Muir, Ezra Pound, Fiona Sampson, George Mackay Brown, Jen Hadfield, John Clare, Louis MacNiece, Lynne Wycherley, ohn Burnside, Paul Muldoon, Pauline Stainer, Poetry London, Rainer Maria Rilke, Seamus Heaney, Sinead Morrissey, W.B. Yeats, William Carlos Williams, William Wordsworth
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