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Tag Archives: Ulysses
And And And
This week’s writing has been characterized by the feeling Dante describes in the first canto of the Inferno. I find myself lost in a deep dark wood, fearing it’s a wood of error. Still, I’m old enough and mature enough … Continue reading
Posted in On the Novel
Tagged A Coast of Trees, Adam Penna, AR Ammons, Dante, Homer, James Joyce, John Berryman, Knausgaard, My Struggle, novel, Novels, Poetry, poets, The Dream Songs, The Iliad, The Inferno, the writing process, Ulysses, Writing
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Two Attitudes: The Power of Poetry
There are two basic attitudes regarding the power of poetry. The first is summed up by Tennyson’s Ulysses who, though old, manages to convince his men to sail with him once again “to strive, to seek, to find and not … Continue reading
Posted in Starting from Poetry
Tagged Dante, humility, Milton, Poetry, Tennyson, Ulysses, Uses of Poetry
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