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Like the essay on my home page where I introduce my work here on the web, I am publishing here in my blog the three passages of poetry with which I conclude the three books. I’ve arranged them in the order I wrote them. Since I completely rewrote the second … read more

(Most of this essay appears as an Afterword in the second edition of A Comic Vision of Great Constancy. It replaced “An Essay on Significant Influences.” That essay on influences now follows this essay on poetry and philosophy here in my blog. I write “most of this essay” above because … read more

Introduction

In the first edition of A Comic Vision of Great Constancy, I added “An Essay on Significant Influences” as an Afterword at the end. In keeping with the relative informality and the personal nature of my approach, this was my way of giving credit to the writing of others without … read more