Does everything connect?...Or what is so kute about korrespondences?, so to speak
Costas Stergiou
gorgonos at gmail.com
Thu Jul 29 17:59:47 CDT 2010
Borges probably
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 1:30 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Exploring a neglected--almost lost to history--- 19th Century American poet
> of
> nature named Frederick Goddard
> Tuckerman.....rediscovered and published in 1965...
>
> TRP 'relevance" is that he has a poem about a wanderer on the Argentine
> pampas,
> reminding of that bit in GR
> and his wanderer:
>
> "Sees the vault blacken,/ feels the dark wind strain,/ hears the dry
> thunder
> roll, and knows no rain."
>
> Yeah, I don't either, but where did the Argentine pampas trope come from?
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