NEW POETRY
Even This Far by Joshua Alan Sturgill
Religio Poetae, Part 6: Dale Nelson concludes his study of Coventry Patmore’s classic.
A New War Poet: It is with difficulty that I express my meaning—for poetry by its definition is the last and essential truth, which can be defined no farther; but I would say that the poem of “Evening in February” seems to me to picture eternity itself.
Lord Dunsany’s Introduction: I have looked for a poet amongst the Irish peasants because it seemed to me that almost only amongst them there was in daily use a diction worthy of poetry, as well as an imagination capable of dealing with the great and simple things that are a poet’s wares.
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