Walking with Ruskin: Poems

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In his poem, "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell," William Blake hypothesized that "If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite." Of course, Blake's "doors of perception" are both hard to clean and even harder to keep clean. For John Ruskin, the famous 19th century art and social critic, seeing demanded a scientist's respect for fact, but also a love for what was being seen. These poems ask us to attend, with devotion and care, to a world which will always remain a mystery, but a mystery in which love calls us to the things of this world where we may become most fully human.

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Overview

In his poem, "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell," William Blake hypothesized that "If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite." Of course, Blake's "doors of perception" are both hard to clean and even harder to keep clean. For John Ruskin, the famous 19th century art and social critic, seeing demanded a scientist's respect for fact, but also a love for what was being seen. These poems ask us to attend, with devotion and care, to a world which will always remain a mystery, but a mystery in which love calls us to the things of this world where we may become most fully human.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781933880211
  • Publisher: CavanKerry Press, Limited
  • Publication date: 9/14/2010
  • Pages: 116
  • Series: Notable Voices Series
  • Product dimensions: 5.90 (w) x 9.20 (h) x 0.50 (d)

Meet the Author

ROBERT CORDING is the Barrett Professor of creative writing at Holy Cross College; he has published five collections of poems.

Table of Contents

Old Houses 1

I All at Once

Dangling 5

Staying Awake 7

Thirty Second Concert 9

Murmurings 11

Czeslaw Milosz's Glasses 13

Reading George Herbert 16

Waiting for the Word 18

The Chair 19

On a Drop of Rain 21

Erasure 22

II In and Out

Chances 25

Shame 29

Sparrows 31

On the Way to Cold Mountain 33

Alligator Boy 35

Snake Crossing 37

Rain, Snow, Rain 38

III Backward

January 43

Four Prayers 45

Without End 50

Kin 51

IV Here

Stopping by the Pond 55

In Early Spring 57

Why I Live Here 59

My Neighbor's Mailbox 61

Walking with Ruskin 63

Swallow Syllabics 65

At the Cemetery with Cotton Mather and Thomas Hardy 66

Dandelions and Clover 68

Necessary Fool 70

V A Map

Cows 75

Brother Woodpecker 76

It's That Time of Year 78

April, Peepers, Flaubert, and Springsteen 80

Nocturne 81

Mozart's Starling 82

Room with Three Windows 84

Last Things 86

Luna Things 88

Gift 90

Notes and Dedications 93

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