famous poem are these by Edward Lear (1812-88), Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-94), and Walter de la Mare (1873-1956). Their poems are tough, not cloying. Stevenson's "The Land of Counterpane" associates illness with imagination in a way that's disturbing or mysterious as well as engaging. The change from past to present tense in the last stanza--"I was" the giant who "sees"--evokes the imaginative or delirious trance of an extended moment.
from Robert Pinsky: Slate: Wild Child
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