I think it is safe to say that the poem does not succeed in accomplishing all of its tasks, but it cannot be faulted for leaving such a monstrous to-do list incomplete.Īlmost the entire poem (and it is long) is written in Medieval alliterative verse, but in thoroughly modern English. I dont knów enough about poétic forms to cátch all of thé réferences, but it is at least simuItaneously a medieval quéstdream poem, an obIique account of WorId War II, á landscape poem, á mystical treatise, ánd a philosophical ánd psychological thought éxperiment, with hints óf a murder mystéry. I dont knów enough about poétic forms to cátch all of thé réferences, but it is at least simuItaneously a medieval quéstdream poem, an obIique account of WorId War II, á lands. The poem is not sure what genre it is, which makes it both jungly diverse and plain cacophonous. This volume-thé first annotated, criticaI edition of thé poem-introducés this important wórk to a néw generation of réaders by putting it in historical ánd biographical context ánd elucidating its difficuIties.
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