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Eliot\n\t\t051\tThe cost of the opera is introduced (see notes in tape #506)\n\t\t062\tAnnouncer introduces the resumed discussion\n\t\t074\tHughes discusses the critical reaction to the opera, the difficulties of performing it, and the advantages of modern recording techniques\n\t\t096\tKenner describes his reaction to finally hearing a good performance of Le Testament de Villon\n\t\t109\tHughes talks about the problem of the opera’s not having much physical action and the audience’s lack of ability to understand the French of the Villon poem\n\t\t123\tKenner’s The Pound Era is discussed; Hughes speaks about techniques of expression used in Pound’s Cantos which are also used by Kenner.  Hughes then talks about the relationship of Pound’s poetry to music and vice versa\n\t\t203\tHistory of Pound’s involvement with music\n\t\t223\tPound is quoted: “I pointed out that music and poetry had been an alliance in the twelfth century, that the divorce of the two arts had been to the advantage of neither…”  This opinion is discussed\n\t\t265\tAmirkhanian reads from an article by George Antheil (who edited the opera in 1923) which assesses Pound’s music\n\t\t317\tPound’s lack of knowledge of harmony, etc., is discussed and compared to Stravinski’s lack of musical “hang-ups”\n\t\t360\tHughes defends Pound’s being opinionated and “bombastic” on the subject of music\n\t\t400\tHughes discusses Pound’s original manuscript of the score, and some of the problems of performing it as written\n\t\t460\tRobert Browning’s use of musical notation as part of some of his later poems is mentioned by Hughes; it is pointed out that Pound also does this in the Pisan Cantos\n\t\t485\tThe future of Pound’s opera as a lasting work is discussed, as is the inability of earlier orchestras to play such a complex work\n\t\t586\tPound’s “pan-cultural” approach to music and literature is discussed\n\t\t655\tHughes discusses how he gets musical inspiration for his own compositions from Pound’s writings\n\t\t734\tKenner talks about the “old fashioned” kind of scholarship needed to understand Pound’s works\n\t\t790\tKenner expresses the opinion that Le Testement may have been a “tryout” for the Cantos\n"],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"Liner Notes: This Tape contains an introduction to the opera (Band 1) and a discussion of the opera among Charles Amirkhanian (the Music Director at KPFA, Berkeley), Robert Hughes (the Conductor) and Hugh Kenner  \\nSide 1: 29:05\\nSide 2: 26:08\",\"type\":\"General\"}]"],"Related_works":["[]"],"_version_":1853670552756027392,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T14:59:57.226Z","score":1.2739856},{"id":"5231","cataloger_name":["Ben,Joseph"],"partnerInstitution":["Simon Fraser University"],"collection_source_collection":["Reading in BC Collection"],"source_collection_label":["Reading in BC Collection"],"collection_contributing_unit":["SFU Library"],"source_collection_uri":[""],"collection_image_url":[""],"collection_source_collection_description":["Reading in BC collection was assembled during the late 1970s and ‘80s. 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Santa Barbara), Georg Gugelberger (prof. of comparative literature, U.C. Riverside), and Paul Vangelisti (editor of Invisible City) discuss Pound’s work\n\t\t000\tIntroduction: Kenner discusses the rationale behind designating a “Pound Era”\n\t\t052\tDiscussion of some of Pound’s contributions to modern poetry\n\t\t080\tPound’s influence on other writers\n\t\t100\tParis in 1920’s – important because it was possible for an author to get anything printed\n\t\t112\tPound’s translations as feats of invention\n\t\t130\tNotes of Ernest Fenollosa\n\t\t160\tPound’s desire that his readers should consult some of the original sources of his translations\n\t\t177\tContribution of Chinese poetry to English poetry: conveys a “literal sense”\n\t\t181\tKenner reads from “Poem by the Bridge at Ten-Shin” (Personae, p. 131)\n\t\t198\tE. 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Humes essay “Romanticism & Classism” announcing the break with the 19th century\n209\nEzra Pound essay “A Retrospect”’ explaining the school of Imagism\n231\nDefinitions of what an “Image” is\n252\nDefinition by Bowering, of “description: - the process of the writer interpreting an experience for the reader (removing individual interpretation)\n290\nPound’s definition of “symbols”\n300\nSymbols must not only be accessible to an intellectual elite – Pound paraphrased\n328\nReading of a Swinburne sonnet\n352\nReading of a H.D. poem\n357\nDiscussion on contrasts between the two poems\n384\nImagist school innate legacy\n427\nPerfectibility of Man notion disregarded by 1905 / Influence of World War I\n447\nBowering places his emphasis on the period between 1903-1915 “Major change in American writing”\n465\nImagist desire to seek out foreign influences\n489\nRecommendation of The Imagist Poem by William Pratt as a “handy” source of reference\n496\nExamples of sources, Bowering reads aloud two Greek poems :\n“Poesidipus”\n“Refinis”\n518\nAn Ezra Pound poem from 1912 Awpia; this poem is to be seen, so Bowering feels, in reference to the two Greek poems read previously\n530\nH.D. poem, also written in 1912 “Orchid” or “Pryapous”\n550\nDiscussion of initial Imagist output/ The Eaglist magazine/Imagist anthology “Des Imagists”\n613\nPound’s discovery/creation of “Voiceism”. 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Poe and the scansion of verse (in English), characterizing how to put a poem together moment by moment\n0461\nThe difference between a good H.D. poem and a bad H.D. poem is determined by the degree to which she “meddles”\n0465\nPound thought H.D. was getting “too mystical”\n0472\nWhat is being sought in an Imagist poem “to discover the inevitable”\n0483\nPope’s form social convention – English isn’t spoken in iambic\n0496\nRecommends John Gould Fletcher’s book Irradiations Sand and Spray. The preface describes how one goes about making an Imagist poem\n0506\nParaphrases T.E. Hume – Images are the only way to communicate with each other (verbal or pictorial)\n0536\nWhat is the poet’s job? 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Fletcher\n008\nDiscusses the principles that are presented in this chapter. (i.e. 1 – Incompetence will show in the use of too many words). Bowering sees this book as a good demonstration of what it asks for itself\n017\nAs Pound notes, the principles that are set here are common to all poetry not just Imagist. The principles that Hume, Pound, Fletcher, etc. set are not an invention of imagism\n0027\n“Archaeological dig” of classicism especially for H.D.\n0029\nPoetic images and dream images. Hume and Freud. Pound and H.D.\n0052\nImagist poetry was sculpture just coming over into speech. Sculpture, like dreams cannot be discussed in terms of meaning save as you attend to its physical properties\n0062\nBowering recommends Pratt’s book on the Imagist poem, particularly the section on Pound’s “Station and the Metro”. “The making of that poem is almost a short history on the making of the Imagist movement”\n0071\nImagism, Bowering says, is a funny thing to have happened in the 20th century. Why should it show up in the 20th Century except as a response to the death of Romantic poetry in the hands of Swinbourne and company\n0077\nDiscussion of images in Romantic poetry at its height (Coleridge and Shelley). Images are not fixed. They are always in motion, in flight\n0098\nConstant flux picked up by American Poets. The prime images in Whitman, for example, are images of things in motion\n0105\nThe beginning of the 19th C. perspective akin to 20th C. notion in physics: impossible to distinguish between matter and energy. To carry (or impose) the image of matter that is not in motion is to impose a false image. And yet, the imagist poem suggest that there are absolute unchanging, eternal realities (with Pound it is rhythm)\n0117\nH.D.’s setting of ancient Greece for the modern mind is one of stasis. She uses “timeless” setting\n0124\nWhat do we make of this?\n0128\nFreud (not a political radical, says Bowering) offers a suggestion, a clue as William James did to G. Stein (another conservative) : there is a common bank of images and a common bank of symbols, that we can share\n0145\nThe mind is a flower pot, says Bowering, and the flower is the same as the one that grew in Greece. A yellow orchid in H.D.’s instance\n0149\nH.D.’s novel Palimpsest is discussed as an example of H.D.’s method\n0184\nImagists especially H.D. used experiences over and over again (“spiral”). A sense that she is hovering over the experiences getting different views, similar to the effect of walking by a Cezanne canvas\n0190\nShe is loyal in terms of detail to each of these times, but there is the sense that time hasn’t happened between them. The images know of no boundary called time\n0206\nShared memory (archetypes). For Freud all images are automatically symbols as soon as people become aware of them (this is echoed by Hume)\n0216\nShelley – I, she, he, it, etc. are simply different words denoting the same thing. Yeats as discussed by Unterraker is presented as an example: “No symbol has a meaning”\n0225\nImplication(s) of this discussed. Word-as-sign is the only exception but as soon as associations are made it becomes a symbol\n0232\nImagists provide exactly what the Freudian analysts did. Images are shared images. What H.D. is looking for according to Robert Duncan, is what the words can offer her. Because for H.D. words offer the unknown, they are not tools as for rationalist poets\n0253\n“What the words conceal” is the quality of words that H.D. is looking for in her poems. She is not using words to do this, the words are using her. Bowering likens this to dreams and psychoanalysis\n0274\nPresents Herbert Read’s discussion/demonstration of the difference between a sign and an image and a metaphor and symbol. Discussed in terms of psychoanalysis\n0297\nThe difference between bad imagist poem and good imagist poem. If the poet cannot resist hinting at the “meaning” of an image this is not an imagist poem. This is connected to the example of a patient undergoing psychoanalysis\n0301\nH.D.’s “Oread” closest to the most perfect imagist poem. Ironically, if patient/reader is asked to find out meaning rather than having one imposed upon her by analyst/poet then s/he is likely to come much closer to “intended” or “shared” meaning, says Bowering. He gives examples (similes, as well as metaphors)\n0324\nT.S. Eliot is quoted (from Preludes) on the experience that the writer/reader of imagist poem has\n0337\nHow are imagist procedures used to make a long poem or a novel? Pound is quoted (on the haiku & noh play) : “its unity consists in one image”\n0356\nBowering presents another view “an aggregate of images” that would lead to Pound’s discovery of ideograms\n0362\nPound’s definition of periplume (?) is given because none other is available\n0373\nPratt’s remarks on the long poems of Pound, Williams & Eliot “aggregate imagist poems set in a mosaic pattern around a dominant image” such as The Wasteland, Bowering likens these to certain early 205h C. paintings\n0380\nThe effect of instantaneous perception is discussed\n0393\nThe isolation of images from their surroundings is more pronounced in 20th C. paintings “unclouded by rhetoric”\n0421\nSolicits questions from students. Explains relation between psychoanalysis and imagism briefly\n0467\nLaunches into H.D. discussion. Mentions key things. Recommends Tribute to Freud and other biographies and autobiographies – Ezra Pound, Williams, Hemingway\n0504\nBegins with particulars of H.D.’s life\n0517\nDescription by H.D. in Tribute to Freud of her experience as a child being the only living daughter\n0542\nWhat her experience as being “only one in a world of twos” means (two things); First, (that she is) an outsider without balance and secondly, a rich interior life\n0566\nBowering discusses further H.D.’s feelings of isolation and estrangement\n0575\nDiscusses H.D.’s time at Bryn Mawr with Pound, Williams and Moore\n0581\nDiscusses two visions H.D. had: A childhood vision in which she sees a glowing block with a picture of a serpent and a thistle. Years later she sees a ring in the Louvre which has these images on it. 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Various announcements\n0036\nRecaps. (i.e. great interest in classical world)\n0045\nDiscusses translations and H.D.’s decision to not be “slavish” in translating\n0058\nImagists don’t have a “split” between translations and other poems: “She seeks the elemental (images)”\n0065\nThis ain’t no soft focus Greece\n0073\nBowering reads passages from Wm. Carlos Williams’ autobiography who was madly in love with H.D.\n0134\nBowering says that these passages give a different sense of her because they discuss her in relation to sea, storm, the sky, etc.\n0144\nSome biographical anecdotes\n0161\nRecommends My Friends When Young. More anecdotes and titles\n0183\nDiscusses impact of war on H.D. and her marriage and affairs. Mentions Bloomsbury Group. More biographical stories\n0213\nMentions that poems ‘reflect’ this turmoil. More biographical stories\n0232\n“The Islands” is discussed, esp. section IV which is read\n0290\nDiscusses Sappho’s “Fragment #113” and reads last stanza\n0312\nH.D.’s second famous vision (in Tribute to Freud) is discussed. More biographical stories follow\n0403\nWorld War II’s impact on H.D. Reads from Tribute to the Angels. (p.85). More titles and stories\n0446\n20th century chaos affects and resembles H.D. life. She tries to (re)discover who she is. Poems are an attempt at resolution\n0466\n“The blank page is a perfect poem” – Mallarme\n0467\nFreud “The childhood of the individual is the childhood of the race”. Discussed briefly in relation to H.D. and her work\n0475\nNew editions. Bowering reads some passages\n0502\nH.D.’s poems as a search for identity (partly). Bowering says he, unlike everyone else he knows, has not been in analysis because he does not believe in the unconscious (which some say proves one needs analysis!) Analysis anecdotes\n0519\nGreek myth as a metaphor but all poems autobiographical for H.D. This prevents the Sylvia Plath syndrome\n0541\nH.D.’s admiration for the hard, elemental strength of singularity versus the ease that the late Victorian Poets were being accused of. Mentions “Sea Rose” and mentions poem about Shakespeare “Good Friend”. Mentions various other titles\n0590\nLecture ends\n0673\nEnd of Side One"],"Note":["[]"],"Related_works":["[]"],"_version_":1853670553962938368,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T14:59:58.384Z","score":1.2739856},{"id":"5773","cataloger_name":["Kate,Moffatt"],"partnerInstitution":["Simon Fraser University"],"collection_source_collection":["Reading in BC Collection"],"source_collection_label":["Reading in BC Collection"],"collection_contributing_unit":["SFU Library"],"source_collection_uri":[""],"collection_image_url":[""],"collection_source_collection_description":["Reading in BC collection was assembled during the late 1970s and ‘80s. 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Poems might be made to survive by their singularity\n0175\nBriefly looks at “North Star”\n0188\nThe connection between beauty and (the sustenance of) life. The only worthwhile beauty, for H.D., is assertive of life and survival versus decadence. Discusses in relation to the goddesses that H.D. admires (esp. Artemis who is inviolable as well, Athena, Demeter, Circe)\n0241\nIn “The Walls do not Fall” she becomes ISIS, Classicist aesthetics are concerned with the strength and survival of that which is beautiful; that which is beautiful is seen as that which lasts\n0252\nLooks at poem about Athena “Pallas”, an introductory poem. “They” in the poem refers to men\n0262\nReads out a passage. Athena is simultaneously the goddess; protector; example and at the same time, Greece (Athens) and women\n0296\nDiscusses the end-rhyme in the poem\n0302\n“What are the rhymes making you do?” asks Bowering. “This is the angle to attack the poem on.” Uses of rhyme are subtle. They don’t discard real speech patterns\n0332\nDon’t think that H.D. was just an anti-male amazon\n0347\nAnother aspect of the “War Trilogy” that must be kept in mind. One does not reach ‘The Mystery’ by abstractions but by sharp detail. Mentions “the scribe”. H.D. places herself philosophically against the Aristotelian genus sorting. She wants to portray how things come together, “wildly dissimilar yet actuated by the same fear the hippopotamus and the wild deer hide by the same river…”\n0365\nShe is against associating things in that organization “that places everything in boxes”. George discusses the scientific objectification of the world and its relation to capitalistic exploitation\n0408\nLooks at two more poems that connect to “The Walls do not Fall” whose theme is: What do we do with language?\n0413\nAfter the work of the poet has been done the mysteries remain\n0427\nThe mysteries are not explained away as is so common in the 20th Century where mystery gets changed into a puzzle – something solvable (i.e. poems of Tate, Ransom, etc.)\n[0042]\n“The Moon in your Hands” is discussed\n0460\n“The Good Friend” is discussed. A poem about poetry of the Elizabethans and her own – similarities between Elizabethans and moderns. Introduces “War Trilogy” and “Walls do not Fall”\n0514\nGreece is not the metaphor in “The Walls do not Fall”. All the sources of magic, religion, myth (i.e. Christian, Hebraic, Egyptian, Theban and the secret, hermetic forbidden) are there\n0550\nSense that she takes structures from Christianity and extends them so that they will take all the beginnings of myth and religion. The Holy Ghost becomes dreams. We admit the transubstantiation\n0578\nH.D. makes association between rhymes, images and between gods that nobody ever made before because she makes them purely on the basis of sound. Necromancy\n0597\nH.D. wants to make the “associations of delight” in terms of rhyme. She doesn’t see mystery as a puzzle (i.e. something that is outside of us that we can solve)\n0619\nH.D. doesn’t want any frills or ‘poetic devices’ for the war in terms of the use of the language. She wants to show the continuation of the spirit despite the mechanical horrors of war. 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There is a change in H.D.’s thinking from volume to volume\n0046\n“Sand drifts… eternity endures… inspiration stalks us” taken as totems for theme\n0060\n“Stalked unaware” a vision is placed in front of us. Reads passage from poem\n0064\n“Stalked unaware” a vision is placed in front of us. Reads passage from poem\n0077\nPatterns of images (e.g. The python, etc.)\n0088\nPoem made up of fragments\n0093\nPoet (H.D.) looking for fragments to piece together universe\n0101\nH.D. says that there is a parallel between the smashed city and the condition of the 20th century (“sensitive”) mind\n0109\nShe posits a difference between scribes and priests. The priests have always been removed from the source of power (especially cosmic power) unlike the poets. The poets have revelations which the priests have to interpret. Poets do not close off any experience\n127\nH.D. does not see the subject/object split. Objects are “messages”\n0141\n“I sense my own limit… Be indigestible, hard, ungiving…” What is suggested by this to Bowering is that the individual consciousness can find access to all truth that has ever existed (D.N.A. : R.N.A. can be seen as repositories of all of it)\n0167\nWhy does anyone break into a song or dance?\n0174\nImage of worm as passage of time\n0188\nIs the genius in the jar another hermetically sealed room? Look at Fisher-King and worm images at some length\n0240\nImage of worm spinning its own shroud –a cocoon Imago – the last flowering stage of metamorphosis and root for image and has specific meaning in Freudian psychology (one’s image of one’s self after having gone through a dialective). Worm image discussed further\n0282\n“We are bearers of the secret wisdom … we are not only non-utilitarian we are pathetic/this is the new heresy/but if you cannot even understand what words say how can you expect to pass judgement on what words conceal.” Words are not tools any more than nature is a tool. Central poetic for H.D.\n0295\n“Speech is not only for use,” this is to destroy reactionary notions that poetry is frivolous\n0309\nThe writing on the wall\n0345\nThe holy ghost, for H.D., comes in terms of dreams. Discussion of dreams in “Walls do not Fall”. Visions that H.D. has had come up in the poem\n0397\nH.D.’s condemnation of Christianity. She sees it as out of touch with the mystery that inspires. Christianity is guilty of the objectification of the world which allows the exploitation of human beings and the destruction of the planet\n0421\nBowering reads section 20 of “Walls do not Fall”\n0442\nPassage 28 is discussed briefly\n0450\nPassage 36 is discussed along with 37\n0509\nThe poem, says Bowering, begins to feed upon itself. Poem not seeking status for timeless imagist poem. Time becomes part of the process of the poem itself. This is not referential time\n0538\nNon-referential time is a matter of process. The poem does not hover in imagistic stillness but becomes an act\n0548\nDiscussion of polytheism and monotheism. Explains relation between monotheism, the scientific objectification of life and capitalism\n0586\nBowering reads final section of “Walls do not Fall”\n0616\nDiscusses H.D.’s play(ing) with words as the loosening of the spirit. Sequential thinking is repressive. Bowering discusses Joker-Gods. (e.g. joker-coyote of the northwest Indians; the spider-joker of West Africa)\n0668\nLecture ends\n0680\nEnd of Side one\nSide two is blank"],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"Intermittent audio problem for first six minutes [indicated on J-card]\",\"type\":\"\"}]"],"Related_works":["[]"],"_version_":1853670553963986944,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T14:59:58.384Z","score":1.2739856},{"id":"5775","cataloger_name":["Kate,Moffatt"],"partnerInstitution":["Simon Fraser University"],"collection_source_collection":["Reading in BC Collection"],"source_collection_label":["Reading in BC Collection"],"collection_contributing_unit":["SFU Library"],"source_collection_uri":[""],"collection_image_url":[""],"collection_source_collection_description":["Reading in BC collection was assembled during the late 1970s and ‘80s. There are approximately 1000 tapes in this collection. 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Views poem as a process or act\n0059\nThebes and Jerusalem become the major bodies of mytho-history that H.D. feeds on in poem\n0101\nBowering reads section 3 and discusses the “angelology”\n0121\nWar becomes part of process (of poem and history). Discusses view of war as inevitable part of progress (Whitman)\n0132\nSections 6 to 17, main passages on Aphrodite who becomes Mary. Bowering reads section 12. Discusses goddesses. Explains that there is a balance struck up between Aphrodite (the mother of us all, for H.D.) and Amen (Father)\n0162\nDiscusses images of beauty in relation to war, Section 17, and discusses H.D.’s two major visions in Section 23\n0200\nTransubstantiation image is discussed while reading Section 23\n0216\nThe second vision first appears in Section 28. The fusion of Venus and Mary is made here\n0231\nThe figure of Mary, explains Bowering, is not simply the Christian Figure of Mary. It is the figure of Mary as she becomes merged with ISIS, ASARTE, Demeter, etc.\n0236\nAn ambiguous gesture in Section 29 – the appearance of Mary gives us the sense that H.D. is expanding to all the Venus figures\n0247\nThe series of painters’ images of Mary in Section 29 is discussed\n0263\nThe ‘Palimpsest process’ is pointed out (i.e. Mary keeps resurfacing again and again)\n0274\nMary’s son combines Adonis and Dionysius, explains Bowering, during a discussion of the ‘evolution’ of religions. A lengthy discussion of collective dreams ensues\n0332\nFreudian dream theory\n0344\nSections 32, 35, 36 and 37 are discussed\n0400\nSection 1 is read and discussed. The totally purified Mary, before the Church imposes its image upon her, is the one H.D. wants to see/show\n0459\nSection 39 is read. Primitive terror is discussed, as well as the inability of language to express or convey a synthesis of ‘same’ and ‘different’\n0497\nSection 40 is read and discussed. In particular, Bowering discusses the subjection of experience by representation, and the inability of representation to ‘capture’ an impression or experience. One of the oldest problems artists have had\n0516\nBowering reads Section 41 and discusses it\n0554\nSection 43 is read and discussed\n0626\nLecture ends\nEnd of Side one\nSide Two is blank"],"Note":["[]"],"Related_works":["[]"],"_version_":1853670553963986945,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T14:59:58.384Z","score":1.2739856},{"id":"5776","cataloger_name":["Kate,Moffatt"],"partnerInstitution":["Simon Fraser University"],"collection_source_collection":["Reading in BC Collection"],"source_collection_label":["Reading in BC Collection"],"collection_contributing_unit":["SFU Library"],"source_collection_uri":[""],"collection_image_url":[""],"collection_source_collection_description":["Reading in BC collection was assembled during the late 1970s and ‘80s. There are approximately 1000 tapes in this collection. 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Bowering comments on strange 747 noise. More noise\n0018\nLecture begins. Bowering outlines Gertrude Stein readings\n0040\nH.D. discussion begins with a question to the students and an explanation of the amount of time spent on H.D.\n0049\nPromotion for Special Collections room\n0065\nDiscussion of Flowering of the Rod begins with a comment on aesthetics\n0074\nThe Flowering of the Rod is the flowering of the pen and of the tree. Biblical story is mentioned. Sexual connotations of story are mentioned\n0090\nH.D.’s visions and her relationship to the war. Transcendence which is not merely resurrection\n0102\nResurrection images/metaphor\n0109\nBeginning of Section 3 of Flowering of the Rod is read and discussed\n0117\nSection 1 is rad and discussed in relation to other two volumes of War Trilogy\n0133\nSection 2 is read and discussed in part\n0142\nSection 3 is discussed further. Atlantis is supreme example of of the cities with walls\n0185\nSection 4 is read in part and discussed. The continued images of beauty and love are H.D.’s longing for the perfect\n0210\nH.D.’s position as an artist (in relation to poem) : she stands unsatisfied. Her search for beauty and the eternal is what is left instead of the eternal, beautiful, perfect\n0222\nBowering explains the difference between a cynic and a skeptic: a cynic denounces the search for the perfect because it is impossible to reach (this in itself is idealism). A skeptic accepts that we seek the perfect in art because that is the impulse to create all the while realizing that this is impossible. The difference between an artist and a “sensible” person lies in the acceptance or rejection, respectively, of this search\n0245\nThis eternal urge is the urge of dreamers, explains Bowering. He discusses the aforementioned in relation to art in general and the imagist’s use of Freudian dream theory. Section 5 is read in part and discussed\n0289\nBeatitudes in St. Matthew are discussed in relation to Section 5 images. Suffering and art are discussed in relation to H.D. and Romantics\n0324\nSection 6 is read and discussed. Bowering notes how the poem again feeds on itself\n0326\nSection 9 and 10 are discussed\n0473\nSection 11 is read and discussed. H.D.’s use of resurrection is looked at again\n0516\nSection 12 is read in part and discussed. H.D. ; Mary Magdalene; Eve and Lilith are connected. A woman from Atlantis who H.D. does not name is seen by her to be before Lilith (who is before Eve)\n0590\nFor H.D. doubt is absolutely necessary for the recurrence of faith. Could Faith exist without doubt? Faith and doubt are discussed at some length\n0690\nLecture ends\nEnd of Side one\nSide two is blank"],"Note":["[]"],"Related_works":["[]"],"_version_":1853670553963986946,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T14:59:58.384Z","score":1.2739856},{"id":"5778","cataloger_name":["Kate,Moffatt"],"partnerInstitution":["Simon Fraser University"],"collection_source_collection":["Reading in BC Collection"],"source_collection_label":["Reading in BC Collection"],"collection_contributing_unit":["SFU Library"],"source_collection_uri":[""],"collection_image_url":[""],"collection_source_collection_description":["Reading in BC collection was assembled during the late 1970s and ‘80s. There are approximately 1000 tapes in this collection. It consists of the recordings of Canadian and American writers, mostly poets, reading poems, talking, being interviewed, participating in panel discussions, and so on. Most of the recordings were made in BC, but there are some made elsewhere in Canada or the USA. 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She tried to move beyond that\n0086\nWilliam James did not see abstract, logical entities only moving and becoming. This was why he was interested in the process of mind\n0095\nDiscussion of native Indians in California who perceive the world in motion. Their language does not allow for talking about anything at rest. Things are not manifest they are manifesting\n0105\nHow can H.D.’s sense of the past/present which doesn’t have any levels to it be compared to Stein’s sense of time?\n0123\nReads first scene of a Stein play\n0160\nPlays tape of Stein reading “If I Told Him” (her later portrait of Picasso)\n0203\nStein reading ends\n0219\nWhat does Stein mean when she says that “civilization began with a rose a rose is a rose is a rose”\n0230\nStein is stalling that process called reference (allusion or metaphor and even description)\n0244\nStein is perhaps attempting to do here what Buddha was trying to do in “The Flower Sutra”. Bowering discusses experience and its representation in language. What is the relationship between the primary experience and its representation? This is discussed at some length\n0340\nStein is interested in the conscious mind and its possibilities. Her Poetry works on this as opposed to turn-of-the-century (and later) “mining the unconscious” Stein doesn’t believe in the unconscious\n0354\nStein asks about how we can know the unconscious, consciously\n0363\nIn the late-early period of the early portraits on Tender Buttons Stein no longer thinks that words have to be used to refer to a world. She believes that they can fashion a world or become a world. Words do not have to be signs, images, or symbols\n0424\nRecommends The Third Rose by Malcolm Brinnin (a critical biography of Steins work). “Models’, (Stein reminds us in Brinnin’s book) “were everything until the beginning of the 20th century and now hardly any painter who interests anyone really has any realization that everybody used to have a model.:” This is discussed\n0478\nStein said that it was possible to use language in the way that painters could use color. (But color, plane and proportion in painting are not of themselves highly referential in the same way that language is in the “real” world.) Stein was trying to rescue them from their common dulling associations. She makes an assumption about the effect/experience of language\n(i.e. under the conventions that we have applied to the way we make language work is a primary language, a primary association with words). She believed (quite rightly) that each society’s syntactic habits are enforced in order to enforce political, economic, tribal preferences on the parts of those in power. In our post-Aristotlean world, we, like the Russians and Chinese put subject-over-object in that order. The subject is taken to exist previous to action. The object is only brought into being when that subject acts upon it. The subject object split maintained by language is the root of our exploitive capitalism. Stein is attempting to see the world previous to that overlay (her use of language is remedial)\n0556\nThe art is one’s primary experience while one is viewing it (“reality”). It doesn’t have to refer to some previous model. Bowering says that he will look at cubism later to further illustrate this\n0575\nBowering’s use of the word “order” is to imply a sense of beginning\n0594\nStein is interested mainly in “brain” rather than “mind” unlike H.D. brain can be described in terms of energy (and mind in terms of sets for some reason)\n0623\nMemory in connection to “mind” and “brain” is discussed. Memory, for the purposes of the writer especially (according to Stein) is more fruitful than philosophy or conjecture\n0638\nBowering says that whenever words are put together the product is “real”. It is not possible to not do this. The concept of “real” is discussed at some length\n0724\nA test of Stein’s fiction, says Bowering, would not be whether it is a simulacrum of an experience of the readers’ but whether the reader can remember a character\n0740\nConventional 19th century novels (and paintings) are discussed for their process of cause and effect: set of conditions that becomes the environment; the suggestion is, as it is in naturalism, that environment (as well as heredity) shapes character. Environment and character come together and make the event believable. Stein doesn’t bother with this because people do not look back on their lives that way, says Bowering. She takes major characteristics of a character and shows them appearing again and again through a series of actions. 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Things cannot be seen as different unless they are first seen as similar otherwise there would be no such\nconcept as different.” Bowering waxes metaphysical. Composition and difference are discussed at some length\n0170\nCubism does not want to arrest some object in a moment of time, it wants to get multiple views of the same thing into one space that resists the movement of time. Bowering says he will discuss this further later on in the lecture\n0178\nComposition is involved in the consciousness of seeing (the similar in the different); placing yourself physically in the scene\n0181\nStein on the avant-garde: “No one is ahead of his time. It is only that the particular variety of creating his time is the one that his contemporaries who are also creating their own time refuse to accept.” She once stated that she created the 20th Century when she wrote The Making of Americans. (Created 20th Century America)\n0190\nAgainst description. (Places the writing in past). H.G. Wells is given as an example\n0222\nMcLuhan and rear-view mirror thinking is discussed briefly. “Artists are not ahead of their time,” said McLuhan, “everyone else is behind the time.”\n0231\nStein wants to create one’s time, says Bowering. This is the only thing one can do if one is not satisfied trying to describe (or translate) one’s time. This places one in the past and Stein is not interested in this\n0240\n“Those who are creating the modern composition authentically are naturally only of importance when they are dead because by that time the modern composition having become past is classified,” said Stein, “and the description of it is classical. This is the reason why the creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic. There is hardly a moment in between and it really is too bad, very much too bad, naturally for the creator but also very much too bad for the enjoyer. They all would really enjoy the created soon after it is made than when it is already a classic”\n0250\nThe irritation (shock) of the new (in literature or visual art) is discussed\n0270\nWhat is the source of this irritation? Stein locates it at the reader’s (or audience’s) experience of the work (rather than the work itself). Bowering gives a rather unconvincing David Hume-like analogy\n0279\nWhat is the source of this irritation? Stein locates it at the reader’s (or audience’s) experience of the work (rather than the work itself). Bowering gives a rather unconvincing David Hume-like analogy\n0300\nThe Stein sense of beautiful versus H.D.’s sense of the beautiful which is the eternal and perfect\n0320\nRepetition, beginnings and the ‘natural thing’ are discussed\n0344\nStein does not want to describe but to find the main characteristic. To solve problems she looked at what was not done, Bowering explains\n0380\nThe effect Stein wants to achieve is similar to the effect the cubists wanted to achieve. She wants to get multiple views of the same thing happening in the same time, explains Bowering. Repetition is discussed again as is the parallel in writing with a painting’s effects showing no recognizable object (no nouns)\n0401\nStein’s repetition of main characteristics in different circumstances is discussed as being the way she paints a picture of a person’s life. This perspective is discussed in relation to a historical perspective. Her point was to make people look at and hear her writing in the same way that the cubists wanted people to look at painting. A great deal of art is self-referring in the 20th century, says Bowering. Visual examples are shown\n0450\nWhile showing slides, Bowering discusses perspective, composition referentiality and abstractions\n0596\nDescription is criticized again and discussed in relation to the paintings on the slides. As soon as one enters into description the elements of nature are used by the artist who wants to direct the viewer/audience into having a certain set response to his main subject material\n0622\nDescription; interpretation, perspective; values systems and ego\n0657\nStein’s phrase on composition is discussed in relation to the direction of attention versus process of mind\n0684\nEnd of lecture and side one\nSide two is blank"],"score":1.2739856},{"id":"5780","cataloger_name":["Kate,Moffatt"],"partnerInstitution":["Simon Fraser University"],"collection_source_collection":["Reading in BC Collection"],"source_collection_label":["Reading in BC Collection"],"collection_contributing_unit":["SFU Library"],"source_collection_uri":[""],"collection_image_url":[""],"collection_source_collection_description":["Reading in BC collection was assembled during the late 1970s and ‘80s. There are approximately 1000 tapes in this collection. 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Pg. 24, “A Question on Time.”\n0042\n“(t)he time in that composition is the natural phenomena of that composition and of that perhaps everyone can be certain” – Stein. This quotation is discussed in relation to time in paintings\n0072\n“Each period of living differs from any other period not in the way life is but in the way life is conducted and that, authentically speaking, is composition.” (Stein is trying to show what it is to live in her time. Composition is discussed in relation to consciousness and against certain kinds of realism\n0112\nStein is not interested in cause and effect or in questions of why people do things but how they do it; this places her as scientist as opposed to a religious or philosophical investigator, Bowering explains\n0119\n“Everything is the same except composition and as the composition is different and always going to be different, everything is not the same”. (p. 28 “composition as explanation”). Bowering discusses this quotation\n0142\nBowering discusses above quotation in relation to H.D. who believed that anyone’s mind could tap the arche-types and dissolve the self. Stein is more interested in how one acts, explains Bowering\n0156\nBowering discusses Melanctha. Though it seems a conventional story for Stein, it is still an odd way of writing for that period (because it is not like descriptive literature), says Bowering\n0182\nStein’s parallel between writing and war. The exigencies that demand modernism : if the war demands modern techniques, those modern techniques will be there sooner than for other things\n0199\nBowering discusses “the time of the composition is a natural thing…”\n0230\nStein tries to make time inconsequential, says Bowering, and the only time that is operative at all is the actual reading time of the piece\n0242\nBowering discusses the cubist’s who did away with conventional use of time and space. They too, like Stein and linguists who study natural language, are looking for an “order’ that exists before the conventionalized, interpretive mind gets a hold of the world and conceals it. This is discussed at quite some length\n0617\nUp until the 20th Century, there are no spaces between things (all space on canvas is filled). In 20th Century art, music and writing, there are spaces between things (different ordering). This is the difference in the modern perspective\n0663\nStein makes a distinction between insistence and repetition. She, as well as Williams, says that Stein doesn’t use repetition. How she writes the portraits is related (by Stein) to how one sees the world around. “Is there repetition or is there insistence? I am included to believe there is no such thing as repetition”. – Stein. This is discussed in relation to “same’ and “different “which is explained in metaphysical terms\n0737\nEnd of lecture\nEnd of Side one\nSide two blank"],"Note":["[]"],"Related_works":["[]"],"_version_":1853670553965035522,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T14:59:58.384Z","score":1.2739856},{"id":"5781","cataloger_name":["Kate,Moffatt"],"partnerInstitution":["Simon Fraser University"],"collection_source_collection":["Reading in BC Collection"],"source_collection_label":["Reading in BC Collection"],"collection_contributing_unit":["SFU Library"],"source_collection_uri":[""],"collection_image_url":[""],"collection_source_collection_description":["Reading in BC collection was assembled during the late 1970s and ‘80s. There are approximately 1000 tapes in this collection. It consists of the recordings of Canadian and American writers, mostly poets, reading poems, talking, being interviewed, participating in panel discussions, and so on. 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Williams from his 1931 Selected Essays. “It is a breakaway from that paralyzing vulgarity of logic for which the habits of science and philosophy coming over into literature, where they do not belong, are to blame”\n0065\nBowering wants us to think of realism as a challenge to form not to contend\n0072\nBowering begins with them. Stein is working out the problem of identity for a famous woman (Ida). Bowering discusses the conflict between identity vs. entity at quite some length and in relation to Stein’s own life\n0206\nWhy does conventional fiction use plot etc., asks Bowering: To assert an unproven greater significance to our existence, he answers\n0220\n“Nobody has identity. Do they put up with it? They put up with identity” – Stein. (Ida’s) identity is discussed at quite some length\n0325\nBowering discusses fable, legends, saints in relation to identity and publicity\n0348\nStein’s dreams and symbols are discussed (with the examples) as well as, fable-language; legend-language (that makes time cease)\n0397\nMagic paranoia fantasy\n0434\nIda is picaresque novel\n0460\nBowering’s description of Ida : “At first there is Ida and what will she do and then there is what she does but where is Ida?”\n0467\nIn Stein’s work we are always dealing with “How it (the mind) feels” not so much with what it says. Bowering illustrates this with examples\n0485\nStein’s jokes and puns are discussed at quite some length\n0627\nThe implications of Ida “making a name for herself” are discussed\n0680\nIda falling in love. Bowering gives an example of true Gertrude Stein logic\n0700\nBowering discusses what he considers one of the greatest empirical passages about growing to love. 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Quite a lengthy discussion ensues – “the story is not over until the reader dies”\n0209\nBowering begins Hemingway discussion by introducing Death in the Afternoon which he will allude to through the lecture\n0231\n“Remarks are not literature”, Stein tells Hemingway. Bowering recommends chapter on Hemingway in Stein’s The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas\n0239\nBiographical anecdotes\n0266\nBowering reads from “Up in Michigan” (Hemingway’s “first story”) and discusses use of language\n0296\nBowering discusses The Nick Adams Stories and interchangeable, autobiographical Hemingway heroes\n0364\nOn the necessity of human bonding which appears almost exclusively as male bonding. Bowering gives various examples\n0409\n“Grace under pressure” is discussed along with Catholicism\n0444\nNick Adams Stories are discussed as initiation stories. One of the two most common themes in American Literature, says Bowering, along with the-disappointment-of-the-promise-made-by-the-constitution (i.e. also loss of innocence like the initiation stories)\n0483\nAnti-Hemingway position is reduced to two points: 1. The women are male-identified; unreal. 2. Hemingway is obsessed by violence, pain and death. Bowering dismisses the former point quickly with an unconvincing, standard (masculine) answer. 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Bowering discusses Williams’ urban home town – dirty, filthy, the population a result of the great immigrations into the United States in the early part of the 20th Century to feed the mills\n0027\nBowering notes that Williams chose Patterson as the setting for Paterson, rather than nearby Rutherford, as “He had to write a poem about everything and set it in its specific place”. The image that Paterson contains is the very central image of the waterfalls\n0032\nLike In the American Grain, Paterson is a book, a poem, about making poetry. Bowering goes on to discuss Paterson as a veritable mine of information on what Williams and other contemporaries thought and felt about poetics\n0071\n…on some pronouncements about poetry by William Carlos Williams: -- ‘Order’ for example\n0097\nDiscusses Yeats’ views of poetics in reference to a Comparison with Williams’ ideas on ‘order’\n0116\nYeats’ idea was to write a poem that lasts forever, containing images which defy death\n0138\nWilliams on ‘Masterpieces’ – beauty is found in the fresh, the unexplored. Masterpieces are only beautiful in the tragic sense, like a starfish stretched out dead on the beach in the sun\n0151\nBeauty – Uncertainty, hence Williams’ interest in ‘accident’, an important principle in Paterson\n0207\n“The impulse to order, then, involves measure, in all its meanings. The first thing one does when one finds oneself lost is try to start measuring, and the only access one has, in order to start measuring, is one’s own lineaments.” Bowering goes on to discuss various aspects of the idea of ‘measurement’\n0303\nA swift jump into ‘perspective’, another multi-meaning word. ‘Perspective’ suggests that the viewer is at the center, and “everything else is on the outside, and the farther away that something is from that ego, then the less important it is.”\n0337\nBowering discusses the desire of the imagists and the cubists to get rid of, or distort ‘perspective’, either by deliberate placement of an image, or by ‘dis-covering’ it. One can “see the world without dominating it”, as Williams says\n0376\nW.C. Williams says: “It is not what you say that matters, but the manner in which you say it”\n0406\nWilliams on ‘Ex-pression’\n0483\nBowering discusses Williams’ The Wedge, as a book written contemporaneously with Paterson\n0533\nWilliams – “One doesn’t seek beauty, it finds you.”\n0574\nFrom Williams “Revelation”: “The objective in writing is to reveal; it is not to teach, not to advertise, not to sell, not even to communicate (for that needs two), but to “reveal”. Bowering goes on to discuss Williams’ fascination for speech undistorted, by speech that reveals through its particular genre: “As a carrot grows up through the ground will have in its shape the particulars of that ground.” In other words, the place in which a person grows up will have to constitute how that person comes to the world, and has to be ‘dis’covered’ in the work itself\n0620\nBowering closes by looking at a late work of Williams, namely The Poem as a Field of Action (1948), which came out at the same time as Book II of Paterson\n0687\nEnd of Lecture a\n0699\nEnd of Side One\nTwo\nBlank\n\n*This appears to be a second version of Accession Number #674\n\nSide\nTrack\nNo.\nComments\nOne\n0000\n0004\nLecture begins with Bowering explaining various significances of Paterson (i.e. the city in New Jersey)\n0033\nPaterson, like many of Williams’ poems, is about making poems; this is discussed\n0053\nBowering recommends In the American Grain as being one of the most useful and accessible books to an understanding of the local (language and place) and the difference between marrying the language and raping it (with reference to Williams’ writing)\n0071\nBowering gives some of Williams’ pronouncements about poetry (esp. on order). “Time is a storm in which we are all lost only inside the convolutions of the storm itself shall we find our directions”\n0087\nYeats (and Pound) in relation to Williams’ work\n0097\nA discussion of artifacts (emblems of perfection and eternity) with reference to Yeats\n0134\nWhy Williams is opposed to masterpieces – they are “like starfish lying stretched dead on the beach in the sun”. Beauty is found in uncertainty and the unknown\n0154\nWilliams’ interest in accident is discussed with reference to Paterson and “Chora in Hell” and Marchel DuChamp\n0190\nBowering discusses Williams’ view of form and structure with reference to “Against the Weather” (storm and uncertainty and order)\n0206\n“The impulse to order involves measure in all its meanings” (measure as distinct from metre because metre is seen as something predecided – measure is used as a descriptive rather than a pre-scriptive term by Bowering)\n0233\nBowering discusses Olson’s image of a bird making a nest in relation to measure\n0255\nMeasure is discussed further in relation to prose, poetry and the self. “The measure intervenes. To measure is all we know. A choice among the measures”\n0291\nImagists wanted to rid the view of her/his self-centred interpretation of the world. The act of observation is discussed\n0302\nBowering discusses perspective at some length\n0373\nProcess and composition are discussed\n0398\nBowering discusses Arthur Simon’s quotation on Mallarme – “To be rather than to express that is what Mallarme has consistently sought in verse and prose”\n0410\nThe artist for Williams is a phenomenon among phenomena. She/he is not the “I” who is a creator of order but a discoverer or a rearranger of an order that is already there. 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Paterson is very much about writing\n0071\nDiscussion of the symbolic setting of Paterson, esp. the river and the falls\n0087\nBowering makes the point that one can look at the river in terms of its representation of the passage of one’s life, a familiar metaphor. The river also can be viewed as representative of thought that has not yet been turned into voice\n0120\nComparison of the treatment of water as a metaphor in a poem of Whitman’s Starting from Paumanok\n0161\nThere is a ‘set-up’ structure to Paterson, its original four books were each divided into three sections, for a total of twelve divisions, suggesting ‘the year’. The physical setting matches also – Book II about the spring\n0180\nAnother sense of structure in the books parallels the subject matter; Book I is relatively clear and straight-forward, but as we progress through the books, the writing grows progressively more ‘muddied’, as does the river in Paterson in its journey to the sea\n0203\n“There are some very particular oppositions to Eliot in Paterson…”\n0218\nThe image of the Dog\n0275\nThe image of the ‘particulars’ of the river\n0279\nWilliams: “Beauty cannot exist in a museum out of time and away from the human”\n0294\nThe idea of ‘Quest’ in literature is discussed\n0314\nThe theme of Marriage/Union as compared to Divorce/Rape is investigated\n0363\nThe metaphor of the City (Man) and the Park (Woman), with the river as thought is looked at. Male and female images are investigated\n0373\nWilliams’ reading of Freud played, perhaps, some bearing on the creation of Paterson, especially in terms of dream signification\n0419\nContinued discussion of ‘Marriage’ vs.’Rape’ in the poetry of Paterson\n0503\nWilliams’ attack on university writers is examined\n0520\nThe symbolism of the dead water of ‘the moat’ of poetry created as a result of middle-class motivations\n0595\nWilliams’ attempts to deal with the masculine, puritanical, death-wish drive in which the masculine values are championed. The American hero at the time was the quiet, unspeaking man of action vs. the suspect, effete man of words (i.e. European). 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One cannot own language or poetry or control it without disrupting its essence\n0172\nWilliams’s examination of two disparate girls who wish to be alike is discussed. This discussion leads into the topic of the range of beauty in nature (ugly to beautiful) and of how that range should be reflected in the language and imagery of poetry. The beauty can be found anywhere – it is how one applies the language to it that interests Williams\n0220\nThe Freudian imagery in Paterson is touched on again by Bowering\n0265\nWilliams views on the ‘library’ and “history, but not for the sake of the encyclopedia”, are examined\n0302\n“The first problem Williams has, if he looks around the city and sees people divorced from their past, divorced from their language, divorced from each other, divorced for the reasons they are doing their jobs, divorced from the possibility of devising their own schedules – he has to find and admit and lay out those faults within himself”\n0372\nBowering notes that, in Paterson, we see people coming together not to share language and themselves, but they gather together as crowds to see dead bodies, to see freaks, to see false language, to rape the earth, to see outside beauty rather than their own\n0432\nQuestions are fielded concerning Book I\n0481\nIf the poet will allow, Bowering notes, his discrepancies, his hesitancies, all his imperfections to appear in the body of the poem, then we are lead to a consideration of the poet, the speaker, much more than we would be if we were offered a poem as a finished and perfect artifact\n0492\nBowering starts on Book II. 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Water also has this quality\n0122\nWilliams said, “The province of the poem is the world. When the sun rises, it rises in the poem and when it sets, darkness comes down and the poem is dark”. That is to say that the poem is not a description of the world, the poem is a world – its own world\n0144\nBowering relates the history of Capt. Vancouver’s voyage up the Northwest Cost\n0165\nThe tightrope passage is discussed\n0204\nThe poetics of wind, the “Breath of poetry” is discussed\n0254\nWilliams’s attitude about the ‘doom’ of the city is looked at. Why does the puritan fear fire?\n0270\nThe events of the Apocalypse are discussed in light of Paterson\n0287\n“Rather than fear the flames”, notes Bowering, “or rather than be gloomy, N.F. Paterson, the poet, hears the laughter all the way through it”\n0315\nThe central image in Book III is the old bottle mauled by the fire. 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