by phillipw | Jul 16, 2020 | PO
Treatments in English Lessons Yet even poetry is now without Transcendence. No one wants to read it. No One pays for it and no one is devout About it as they were before the glow Of cinema and television screens. Forget about the God is dead debate. Forget about the...
by phillipw | Jul 15, 2020 | PO, TR
Where? Where? Where? “Achieved poetry paints with at least one colour which can be found nowhere else.” ~ Michael Schmidt, The First Poets, 19 Do you know just what that color is? Gods’ Eyes must contain it—goddesses’ more so— Yet can we see it there? Perhaps it...
by phillipw | Jul 15, 2020 | PO
Personalized Epiphany “This ‘conspicuousness’, he adds ‘will later be inhabited by poetry, thus becoming perhaps the characteristic that distinguishes poetry from every other form.’” ~ Michael Schmidt, The First Poets, 19 Deep poetry does something depths can not...
by phillipw | Jul 15, 2020 | AN, EN
Scorn Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “Enargeîs is the technical term ‘for divine epiphany: a word that contains the dazzle of “white,” argós, which comes to designate a pure,...
by phillipw | Jul 15, 2020 | AN, BO, Ho
Scholarly Blindness “Since before 450 BC there was no prose literature, our only windows on the ancient world are the poems.” ~ Michael Schmidt, The First Poets, 8 It only goes to show that scholars love To focus narrowly. He looked so hard At Greeks that he is...
