Travels (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: W. S. Merwin
- First Published: 1993
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Poetry
- Subjects: Traveling or travelers, Mythology or myths, Nature, Life and death, Time, Plants
Readers familiar with Merwin’s fluid, organic form will find it embodying meditations and narrative poems about journeying in Travels. The mythology of many of these poems follows the romantic idea that the past is another country. The narrative consciousness of these poems, sometimes in the guise of a number of historical adventurers and naturalists, often drifts back into a deep past only to discover endless regression and evasiveness, except for a few visionary glimpses. Those moments often have, ironically, little to do with a concrete reality but with an elusive moment of...
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