Word: vatic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bulk of The Compass Flower seems too serene to rid itself of fatigued images ("autumn leaves," "salt of the earth") or to prove that its serenity has been earned by struggle. Many Western ears will find it hard to tell whether Merwin is being vatic or phatic...
...catalogue of Stevens' life reads like the driest of textbooks. One does not ask for a disquisition on the businessman versus poet problem, nor for a grand drama of suffering and vatic triumph; one only asks to know Stevens, to get the smell of his personality...
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