by phillipw | Oct 11, 2019 | PO, PO
Poetry, the Encyclopedia: Hesiod, St. Luke and St. Paul About eight hundred years before the first Of Christian poetry (Magnificat And Paul on Charity) there came a burst Of hatred from a crofter in a spat Hesiod? About his brother, verses filled with bile For...
by phillipw | Sep 29, 2019 | PO
Archeology of the Mind— “I have looked upon the face of Agamemnon” “Keats knew that if he wanted his poems to travel further into the world, embracing more of its miseries as well as its pleasures, he must make himself a more ‘naturally’ knowledgeable writer.”...
by phillipw | Sep 22, 2019 | AE, BE, PO
…Plural Perfect Planets The ancient poets are like planets far Away in distant heaven, but for some These poets loom so near they almost jar Against our sentiments. These poets come Up over us like moons, they are so near In what they have to say. Our world is...
by phillipw | Sep 16, 2019 | PO, TR
I Want to Go to Sleep, but Poems… I want to go to sleep, but poems keep On brushing with their wings against my eye. I want to take a fatal nap, but sleep Is flicked away by angel pinions high Above such cowardly retreat. Feather Upon feather brushes up against...
by phillipw | Aug 11, 2019 | MY, PO, SC
In 2011 I was reading a biography of John Keats. In the introduction Lord Byron is quoted as saying that Keats “belonged to that second-hand school of poetry” because he got his inspiration from poetry and art, not from life. Be that as it may (and Byron...
