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Raymond Antrobus Reads John Lee Clark

The New Yorker: Poetry

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Exploring Sensory Imageries in John Lee Clark's Tintern Abbey

The chapter delves into a tactile and sensory description of Tintern Abbey by John Lee Clark, as narrated by a visually impaired poet, highlighting vivid imagery through touch, scent, and sound. It discusses a protactile version of the poem and challenges Wordsworth's ideas on beauty accessibility, emphasizing the poem's embodiment model, multilingual aspects, and playful interactions with nature.

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