Touch, Love, Then Explain: A discussion of “Some Trees” by John Ashbery
Poem Talk
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I Can Make This Difference Into a Beautiful Poem
"Autotelic" is a poem written by an English major at Harvard in 1948. It was the first heyday of new criticism, when poems could be their own worlds and not refer to specific places or people. Dagg: "These accents seem their own defenses as a way of turning that around"
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