Tag Archives: Nobel Prize for Literature

“It should not simplify.”

Posted on March 9, 2018 by Kate Stover

Up and down and up again – the changes in the temperature this spring have caught me off balance more than once. Uncertain times call for poetry, I think, and for contemplating the purpose of poetry. Seamus Heaney’s book The … Continue reading →

Posted in non-fiction, poetry | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

“The secret of all art, also of poetry, is, thus, distance.”

Posted on June 30, 2017 by Kate Stover

Czeslaw Milosz, recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, continues, “Thanks to distance the past preserved in our memory is purified and embellished.”  We can consider the past “without our former passions”  so we can find “details that had escaped … Continue reading →

Posted in poetry | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

So what about Dylan’s song “Blowin’ in the Wind”?

Posted on May 4, 2017 by Kate Stover

Tony Beck, who wrote his dissertation for Cambridge University on Bob Dylan, notes that Dylan “borrowed extensively” from the English poets Coleridge, Wordsworth, Shelley and Bryon, who also used the “wind” as a central image in their poems. For them, … Continue reading →

Posted in non-fiction | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment