Alicia, the resonances come thick and fast toward the end. The "dream beyond the dream," is A.D. Hope, though I believe Greg hadn't read Hope and came to the phrase independently. "The world was little changed" reminds me of Auden, particularly (if memory serves me right) of a line in Shield of Achilles. We are blessed to have a few younger poets who are sponges, soaking up everything that came before; but squeeze them, and the clear water that comes out is markedly their own. You and Greg are two of them.
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