Word: scrambeld
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Dates: during 1962-1962
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...Blackie, the Electric Rembrandt," is that "disinterested, hard energy" by which Nobody holds Nothing-at-all at bay. Mr. Auden's "ironic points of light" flashed out among a decimated signal corps on the last battlefield of love; Mr. Gunn's stars are self-sufficient. Where Donne tossed and scrambeld known quantities and academically-sanctioned categories, where Shakespeare talked of giving "local habitation" to "airy nothing," Mr. Gunn's landscapes, in his own words, lack "even potential meanings" and are modes of "convoking absences." His captains, like the painter in the first poem in the volume, expend their lives "resisting...
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