It’s sometimes surprising to me how invisible the story of an institution can be even from within. The UD website proper strikes me as somehow to shamefacedly disregard the weight and beauty, the story of the institution it represents.
When I say “story” I don’t mean a record of development, a cluster of related events, [...]
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looking for a story
Posted in beginnings, dreaming, good, history, polis, time on December 2, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The Speed of Verse, II
Posted in Charles Williams, Dante, God, Herbert, John Crowe Ransom, Pound, Vergil, Yeats, art, beginnings, birds, books, crannies, dialogue, dreaming, eccentric, history, idiosyncrasy, labor, language, latin, love?, rule, speed, stars, sun, the body, time, translation, verse on October 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
So, why is speed needed to say poetry? It is the sound of sense waking up the latent agility of the tongue: “speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue.” It is attention to sharper contrasts, to multiplying facets, to a superabundant collation of angular things all [...]
