Borges probably<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 1:30 AM, Mark Kohut <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:markekohut@yahoo.com">markekohut@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Exploring a neglected--almost lost to history--- 19th Century American poet of<br>
nature named Frederick Goddard<br>
Tuckerman.....rediscovered and published in 1965...<br>
<br>
TRP 'relevance" is that he has a poem about a wanderer on the Argentine pampas,<br>
reminding of that bit in GR<br>
and his wanderer:<br>
<br>
"Sees the vault blacken,/ feels the dark wind strain,/ hears the dry thunder<br>
roll, and knows no rain."<br>
<br>
Yeah, I don't either, but where did the Argentine pampas trope come from?<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
</blockquote></div><br>