tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21999805.post2711763059431477188..comments2024-03-28T19:56:32.848-05:00Comments on Anecdotal Evidence: `A Golden and Stinking Blaze'Patrick Kurphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08436175583386298032noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21999805.post-33987262315100621972009-11-08T11:59:32.092-06:002009-11-08T11:59:32.092-06:00Thanks for the providing the Hill dictionary appar...Thanks for the providing the Hill dictionary apparatus -- very scholarly of you. It's challenging to stay within the flow of Hill's three-dimensional surfaces while having to stop and look up so many words and nuances -- many of them not in conventional dictionaries. <br /><br />I've been re-reading <em>Mercian Hymns</em> somewhat obsessively recently (is there any other way to read Hill?). How masterfully he hides so much pain, like mushrooms under leaves, below surfaces of deepest gold. You know a poet is great when even a few lines on raking leaves in the backyard arrow in straight to his central, ever-present poetic concern: the interpenetration of English soil and people and history in each moment of living.<br /><br />The Chesteron quote is also fabulous. Your "autumn collection" is much appreciated in this here mulchless, ever-dessicated desert.WAShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10403669322174979974noreply@blogger.com