tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5401830411147364284.post8109432557816858878..comments2024-03-18T19:05:39.072-07:00Comments on Morphosis: Bowles 2, 'Languid, and sad, and slow from day to day'Adam Robertshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15803399373213872690noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5401830411147364284.post-55546912474788171392013-06-10T01:41:26.840-07:002013-06-10T01:41:26.840-07:00Ruzz: it's hard to argue with that (and the ap...Ruzz: it's hard to argue with that (and the appeal of Collins remains something of a blank to me); except that -- as I argue in the Sonnet 3 blogpost, above -- I think there's <i>something</i> more interesting going on in Bowles, landscape-wise. The thing is: Coleridge really does position Bowles as this inspirational, foundational figure for his own writing of poetry. That's the purpose of these pieces, I think: trying to see beyond the conventionalised mannerisms of these poems to get at what it was that set STC's imagination alight.Adam Robertshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15803399373213872690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5401830411147364284.post-26458379769223290022013-06-10T01:15:23.039-07:002013-06-10T01:15:23.039-07:00I have a book of Bowles' poetry but could neve...I have a book of Bowles' poetry but could never find much in the poems so it's good to read your more stringent analysis. I can remember an English lecturer - many years ago - dismissing William Collins (on whom I had written a long, dull essay) as "bad, allegorical ceiling painting" - which always struck me as apt. Bowles has something of this quality - "bad, allegorical landscape painting" perhaps - something in the "School of Claude" model maybe? Ruzzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12275149878354848397noreply@blogger.com