"Poetry Work that Awakened the Genius of John Keats"
"This remarkable association copy, signed to the title page John Keats, Severn’s Gift, 1818, brings together Keats’ greatest single artistic influence and the man who cared for him in his final days. It was Charles Cowden Clarke’s reading of Spenser’s Epithalamion to the 18-year-old Keats that is said to have awakened his genius and inspired his earliest writings, the author later recalling that Keats consumed Spenser’s Faerie Queene 'like a young horse ramping through a spring meadow.'"
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What Sparks Poetry:
Talin Tahajian on Language as Form
"All the affordances of the medium of language come together to realize the musical and narrative sequences of this poem, which taught me the fundamentals of rhythm and pacing. 'Half-Light' is one of the first poems I memorized. It is a 'pre-existing form,' as Bidart describes across his poetry and interviews, that I inhabit almost every time I try to write, mostly unbeknownst to my more conscious enterprises." |
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