Showing posts with label outside world. Show all posts
Showing posts with label outside world. Show all posts

7.24.2015

not seeing out

Too many poems are mirrors when they should be windows.

2.02.2011

more or less clearly

Robinson will not say anything in such a way as to make the responsibility for choice his own rather than the reader’s. He will simply render the situation and leave us to judge it, for all of Robinson’s poems presuppose an outside world of critics and judges, of ourselves, people who see and observe more or less clearly.

—Louis A. Coxe, “E. A. Robinson: The Lost Tradition,” Appreciation of E. A. Robinson (Colby College Press, 1969)