The Ambassador Diaries of Jean de Bosschère and Edgar Poe (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Norman Dubie
- First Published: 1977
- Type of Work: Lyric
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Authors or writers, Literature, Poetry or poets, Novelists, Kings, queens, or royalty, Nazism or Nazis, Orphans or orphanages, Diplomacy or diplomats
The Poem
“The Ambassador Diaries of Jean de Bosschère and Edgar Poe” has three sections, the first and third containing twelve stanzas each, the second containing five. Each stanza consists of six free-verse lines. Although Norman Dubie’s title refers to Edgar Allan Poe and poet Jean de Bosschère, the poem is about Conrad Aiken (1889-1973). From childhood on, Aiken loved Poe’s work, and he admired the poetry of Bosschère. Like these poets, Aiken was an orphan. The word “ambassador” comes from one of the passages in Aiken’s poem “Time in the Rock,” parts of...
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