Marcia Karp wrote:
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> Francis Gavin wrote:
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> Auden rewrote after publication. Wordsworth. Others?
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Pope. But he improved his poems in the rewriting. Can that be said of
Auden and Wordsworth?
Carrol
> I think it is the New York Edition you want. Is that right, Jamesians?
And the great domed head, _con gli occhi onesti e tardi_
Moves before me, phantom with weighted motion,
_Grave incessu_ drinking the tone of things,
And the old voice lifts itself
weaving an endless sentence.
(Canto VII)
James-Sordello-Dante-Penelope.
Does anyone else on this list share my delight in _The Sacred Fount_?
James did join the warhawks in 1914 though, taking out British
citizenship to protest America's failure to enter the insane bloodbath.
"Weighted motion" in the lines above, a _phantom_ with weighted
_motion_. There are so few writers that can achieve such absolute
rightness.
Carrol
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> Marcia
