Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-215).
Contents:
Existence : Thomas Traherne -- Mortality : William Oldys -- Imagination : William Blake -- Compassion : Kobayashi Issa -- The soul : Emily Dickinson -- Things : Guillaume Apollinaire -- Story : Robert Farren -- Epilogue : Mystery and faith -- Appendix : A few more fly poems
Summary:
In this revelatory book, Robert Hudson considers seven poets, each of whom wrote a provocative poem about a fly. Considering Emily Dickinson, William Blake, and several other poets, The Poet and the Fly brings together the poetry, the flies, and the poets' own lives to explore the imaginative, and often prophetic, insights that come from the startling combination of poetry and flies, the extraordinary and the ordinary. Ultimately, the message each poet offers to us through the fly is as relevant today as it was in their own time: the miracle of existence, the gift of mortality, the power of the imagination, the need for compassion, the existence of the soul, the mystery of everything around us, and the sacramental, grace-giving power of story.
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