I think it is from this author. Anyway, this is a great essay on the power and duty of the Poet:
What I am suggesting now is that it is the poet who most effectively names things in this way, who most powerfully arrests our attention from the seemingly chaotic tenor of experience and begins to display to us the determinate nature of the reality encompassing us. This is one of the key respects in which poetic language differs from non-poetic language. We customarily think of the language of poetry as being unique on account of its expressiveness, its sweetness, or even its loftiness of tone and diction.
via The Poet as Namer.
Go and doth readeth ye ole essay.
By the way, get a few of Mark Signorelli‘s books!
I’m pretty interested in the power of the Poet – the poet who changes history, writes it, tackles it. So, I am working on an epic poem, in the style of Lucan, Milton, and the like of a mythologized American history. Oh yes… there are gods and dragons and the what-not.
Related articles
- Rowan Williams: Language under Stress: Poetry and Faith (prodigal.typepad.com)
- The poets are wrong of course. (objetsdevertu.wordpress.com)
- A Misleading Misreading of T.S. Eliot (thelivingnotebook.wordpress.com)
