Poet's Corner

Review of Christine Perkell, The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics

SHIRLEY P . WALKER : A Note on Sense - Perception in the Poetry of

In one of her earliest poems, "Sonnet", sense-perception is seen as an incessant process, the "laborious focus" of eyes and brain which accumulates material for later meditation. "The Maker" has particular relevance to the poet's art. This lyric deals with the poet's unique power to synthesise sense-data into song. In "GumTrees Stripping", on the other hand, sense-perception is but one part of ...

Contrast, Continuity and Contradiction: Opening Signals in A. B. Yehoshua's "a Poet's Continuing Silence"

Openings in fiction have received increasing attention lately from critics concerned both with narrative theory and the explication of specific texts. In his story, "A Poet's Continuing Silence," A. B. Yehoshua provides a series of opening signals that command special interest, since the text focuses directly on beginnings and attempted new beginnings in the lives of the protagonists. The vario...

Autocitation and Autobiography

so that the literary and literal moments of the poet's life are fused together in a highly suggestive pattern. In the same way that the personal encounters of the Comedy have furnished clues to Dante's actual biography-for instance, by alloWing us to date the canzone "Voi che 'ntendendo" with respect to the year in which Charles Martel visited Florence-the Comedy's autocitations may furnish clu...

Book Review: The Poet's Voice in the Making of Mind.