Not being a philosopher I've had to work through my feeling… - John Hollander

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Not being a philosopher I've had to work through my feelings and puzzlements in poems.

John Hollander

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John Hollander (October 28, 1929 – August 17, 2013) was an American poet and literary critic.

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'Poetic form' is a very deep matter that covers much more than phonological or typological pattern.

The building blocks of poetry itself are elements if fiction -fable, 'image', metaphor-all the material if the nonliteral.

Poetic form, as we know it, is an abstraction from, or residue of musical form.... The ghost of oral poetry never vanishes...all poetry was originally oral.

Not being a philosopher I've had to work through my feelings and puzzlements in poems. - John Hollander

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