Good for you, Tim, it's about a time we had a real master on this thread. And Bogan is also my favorite woman poet of the century (and was Henri Coulette's)---much as I admire Bishop and Mew and Meynell and Anna Wickham and E.J. Scovell and Wendy Cope and a dozen more, none, I think, had the pure
lyric brilliance of Bogan. And you chose some of her most beautiful. You might also add her elegy for her brother, which reduces me to tears without fail.
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