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This collection of poems engages in new and animating ways with one of the profoundest texts of our past, the Book of Psalms. These poems are Clarke's response to his experience of reading the Psalter through once every month according to Cranmer’s divisions in the 1549 Book of Common Prayer.
Reprint of the classic guide for the serious gambler to finding a winner at the dog races - as relevant now as when first published in 1975.
This book delineates different manifestations of the vagabond spirit of poetry through the ages. In doing so, it makes claims for the efficacy of poetry in our industrialized world, where we are presented with environmental, political and economic challenges. The Vagabond Spirit of Poetry demonstrates that poems are vital now more than ever because they can transform our relations with each other and with the earth. It acknowledges the awesome power of poems by providing you with fresh ways to apprehend their profound spiritual insights. You will be surprised by how sharp your imagination becomes once you start following the paths opened by Edward Clarke's original readings. This region is full of unexpected turns and pleasant clearings. Beginning in the middle of things with Wordsworth, you will be taken on a journey from Shakespeare to Wallace Stevens. Significant older poets, including Homer, Virgil and Dante, will enliven conversations with the wisest British, Irish and American poets of the modern age. As you proceed, poetry will teach you how to put into practice its perennial wisdom.
Every person has been given two very important dates in their lives. The first is the year of their birth. The second is the year of their death. If you are reading this, you have not reached the second date! But you do possess the very important "dash" that will go between these two major dates that you are living with right now. When you receive the second and final date, your life is over! It is that "dash" that this book is all about and what this author has experienced in his current long life of eighty-three years and still going strong. I will take you along on my journey of all the things I have done from crazy to dumb as a forward to maybe inspire you or people you know to do some o...