by the hammer-blows of repetition in this week's poem "Wind" by Sydney Dobell. Then I gave it another chance. I imagined hearing it recited in a flickeringly gas-lit auditorium by Sir Henry Irving, the actor who once reduced Bram Stoker to a state of collapse with his rendition of "The Dream of Eugene Aram". And I wondered if "Wind" might not qualify as an enjoyably spine-chilling, though probably inescapably comic, Victorian performance poem.from Carol Rumens: The Guardian: Books blog: Poem of the week: Wind by Sydney Dobell
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