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5.0 out of 5 stars
Telling the truth,
By Maggie Hivnor "Maggie Hivnor" (Chicago) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Fables of the Self: Studies in Lyric Poetry (Hardcover)
Warren's collection of essays is carefully (in every sense) written, wise, and exciting. She begins with a story about how, as a 12-year old child plunked down in a very strict French lycee, she felt rescued by French and Latin poetry. ("I found languages I thought "my own.") Later, she returns to English, that "hospitable, hodgepodge tongue" and includes readings of Hardy and Melville with essays on Virgil, Nerval, and Dante. Her insights could rescue students of literature who are tired of over-politicized critical theory. Warren, herself a poet, loves poetry and her voice is clear as a bell. "When we try to tell truth," she writes, "whoever we are. . . the best we can do, often, is sputter. ... Poetry heals nothing. But ... it can draw us into imaginative relation with truths beyond our own ..."
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Fables of the Self: Studies in Lyric Poetry by Rosanna Warren (Hardcover - September 17, 2008)
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