Virginia de Courcey, relics: literary, political, philosophical writings, 1966-1986

For those of you who remember my second wife, Virginia de Courcey, who died in 1986, I am in the process of makng her writings available online.  It is labor-intensive, but a labor of love.  There are many hundreds of pages to be typed out by hand, as they are on typescript of quality too [...]

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. 4. The college above Keith Creek: defending the Romantics

My primary reason for leaving the wilderness was to undertake an in-depth study of poetry and philosophy, something I could not do easily in the woods, at least in the primitive conditions under which I lived.  I needed access to a library and to teachers, and I knew I would benefit by the discipline of a [...]

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11. The river ran red: poetry wars

early skirmishes at Rockford College Almost from the beginning, poetry for me was a matter of contention.  The fight began before I had shown a poem to anyone.  I had read poetry seriously for several years in solitude, then thought to give my reading some structure and weight with a year or two of formal [...]

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