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Clive Wilmer: Selected Poems 1965-1993

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Clive Wilmer: Selected Poems 1965-1993 - Wilmer, Clive, Professor
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'If there were no affliction in the world, we might think we were in paradise , ' wrote Simone Weil. This suggests the themes of Clive Wilmer's third collection of poems, Of Earthly Paradise. Christian ideas of paradise refer to the things of this world, to nature and the human body, with art empowered to construct visions of that paradise. A related theme is work-Adam's curse when he fell, but a blessing when work becomes synonymous with art. Wilmer, an outstanding formal poet, uses rhymed and metrical forms and also ...

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Clive Wilmer: Selected Poems 1965-1993 1995, Carcanet Press

ISBN-13: 9781857541342

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