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William Harmon
William Harmon grew up in Concord, North Carolina, a cotton-mill town about thirty miles northeast of Charlotte. At sixteen he entered the University of Chicago, where in 1958 he earned an A.B. in English. He then

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Berryman
Well. I guess the elegy is dead. If so, then
let's let it roll to rest-o. Exeunt omnes. Ergo,
timor mortis conturbat
mé tóo, I reckon. Oh I get such green-edged vertigo
5as the sick poet must have on the quickly lifting
bridge's shift of footing, or leaning peaked up above the grave
of his felo de se of a father down
in unlikely Oklahoma
(or wherever) toward the lower end of the fatherly
Poetry Trivia
Question:
What late 19th-century British poet declared, "I always knew in my heart Walt Whitman's mind to be more like my own than any other man's living"?
Answer
Gerard Manly Hopkins. Hopkins was a Jesuit priest, and he added, "As he is a very great scoundrel this is not a pleasant confession."
