From the beginning I was drawn equally to those two primary streams of early modern poetry, which I tend to think of as the Styx and the Spoon. I cannot remember quite when or where I was when I encountered either of them for the first time. The earliest memory of the Styx, river of death, dream and forgetfulness, was in some old book [...]
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1. the two rivers: the Styx and the Spoon
Posted in Arthur Rackham, Edgar Lee Masters, Edwin Arlington Robinson, John Keats, River Styx, Robert Frost, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Spoon River, Thomas Hardy, Walter Crane, William Blake, William Wordsworth, beauty, blank verse narratives, faery lore, farming, graveyards, naturalism, rivers, shadows, sonnet, symbolism, unconscious, tagged blank verse narratives, Edgar Lee Masters, graveyards, River Styx, sonnet, Spoon River, symbolism on May 31, 2008 | 1 Comment »
