of Wallace Stevens's "Domination of Black". It resonates among the Suffolk stones as a reminder of those disquieting phenomena, often lurking within the beautiful, that are troubling to our sense of self, "poisonous as Ariel/to Prospero's own knowledge", but that cannot be ignored.
[by Geoffrey Hill]
The Peacock at Alderton
from The Times Literary Supplement: Poem of the Week: The Peacock at Alderton by Geoffrey Hill
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