Great Regulars: The encounter in the poem occurs,

as in the novel, in the ruined gardens of Satis House, but the setting is revealed only in the seventh and ninth stanzas. The work's focus is the dialogue, cut up and expanded by silence to register maximum intensity and difficulty. In the novel, the dialogue flows smoothly. This, of course, is typical of 19th-century realist fiction: speech appears lifelike, but it's life with the pauses and repetitions edited out. [Richard] Price has translated the conversation into its imaginary original.

from Carol Rumens: The Guardian: Poem of the week: I Am Greatly Changed by Richard Price

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