The escape from irony. Geographies -- Poetry and the actual -- Chaplinesque -- "For the marriage of Faustus and Helen" -- The impenitent song -- "Voyages" -- The visionary lyric -- The bridge: a grace to our history. In the country of the blind -- "Proem" and "Ave Maria": the post-Christian idiom -- "Powhatan's daughter" -- The road to Quaker Hill -- "The tunnel" and "Atlantis": the rhythm of The Bridge -- Key West and others. Thresholds old and new.
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