Book Talk 59: Reading the Classics with Louis Petrich
New Books in Literary Studies
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Emerson and Emily Dickinson on the Importance of Language in Poetry
I'm going to ask you one question if I may, if I'm a student in your class so this is a very specific question and you'll get it in one second about Emerson. And the other person who is right next to Emerson it's Emily Dickinson,. Same moment in time writing out of the same world in a way not having been given the same type of education as Dickens. We are continually outmatched by reality. Every blade of grass every grasshopper every bawling every little bird every sunrise it's just so much that all I can do in my poetry is bear witness to the effort to try to say something. What's human is that we are constantly summoned to give
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