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Unread 11-08-2017, 08:09 PM
Nicholas F. Nicholas F. is offline
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An audaciously grand, but I think beautiful, poem:

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...ontentId=24646

On the whole, I much prefer Thom Gunn.

Nick

p.s. If Merrill is Baroque, Gunn is Elizabethan. They were both poets out of their time.
Last edited by Nicholas F.; 11-08-2017 at 08:11 PM. Reason: added p.s.
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