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Poets writing in English have long learned to mourn from classical precedents. They have drawn on a tradition of pastoral elegies, which incorporate the dead into the cycles of nature, that runs from Theocritus’ Idylls to John Milton’s ‘Lycidas’ and Percy Shelley’s ‘Adonais.’ (Susan Stewart Quotes)
The length and shape of the poemetto, like the greater Romantic lyric of English poetry, lends itself to retrospection and commentary. (Susan Stewart Quotes)
Umberto Poli was born in Trieste in 1883, when the city was at its zenith as the major port of the Habsburgs. The irredentist sympathies of Umberto’s Italian-speaking parents can be detected in their giving him the first name of the Italian emperor. (Susan Stewart Quotes)
The closure of the book is an illusion largely created by its materiality, its cover. Once the book is considered on the plane of its significance, it threatens infinity (Susan Stewart Quotes)
To toy with something is to manipulate it, to try it out within sets of contexts none of which is determinate (Susan Stewart Quotes)