the most dangerously disarming, of poets. Many of his poems seem modestly to aspire only to the condition of anecdote; and that is the very precondition of their extraordinarily durable power. Yet to describe their cumulative effect best one has ultimately, however uneasily, to reach for that currently unfashionable noun "wisdom". A good poem, he has written, is like clear water: it tempts one to suppose the bottom can readily be touched with a stick.from The Guardian: The heart of the matter
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