"Clare's modernity is a kind of nakedness of vision that we are
accustomed to, at least in America, from the time of Walt Whitman
and Emily Dickinson, down to Robert Lowell and Allen Ginsberg. Like
these poets, Clare grabs hold of you ... tell[s] you about himself,
about the things that are closest and dearest to him ... It is like
... 'instant intimacy.'"
"What then are we to do with a body of poetry whose author warns
us that we have very little chance of understanding it? ... Why,
misread it, of course, if it seems to merit reading ... This is
what happens to any poetry: no poem can ever hope to produce the
exact sensation in even one reader that the poet intended; all
poetry is written with this understanding on the part of the poet
and reader; if it can't stand the test of what Harold Bloom names
'misprision, ' then we leave it to pass on to something else".
"And why, anyway, should there be but one reading? Once after a
poetry reading, I was asked one of those un-questions that people
ask poets: 'Do you make up your ideas or do they just come to you?'
I was so busy wishing I knew the answer that I forgot to ask why
both couldn't be the case, and several other things as well. 'The
Visitor' could as well be a parable of Eden, of Christ accepting
the inevitability of martyrdom, or it could be only a story whose
meaning is self-contained ... The central axis of ambiguity is
Schubert's own".
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