Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Great Regulars: Writing about [Elizabeth] Jennings in 1970,

Terry Eagleton said her poems always needed to guard against "an impulse to generalized, excessively proverbial statement". And that is what this one does: the last word--"untenanted"--may reinforce other religious clues--boxes carried off, ghosts, dread--or it may simply leave us where we started: in an empty house.

Moving House

Soon the house will be filled again,

from The Times Literary Supplement: Poem of the Week: Moving House

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