Thursday, April 22, 2010

The Virgin Considered As A Picture Comments

Rating: 2.8

Her unawed face, whose pose so long assumed
Is touched with what reality we feel,
Bends to itself and, to itself resumed,
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Edgar Bowers
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Ken Armour 23 April 2012

These are not comments And certainly not poems Bowers IS a poet Leave him alone He needs no pedantic analogy Oops I just did the same

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V.e. Perkins 22 April 2012

The subtlety and perfection of this Petrarchan sonnet reveals Bowers as a genius of insight and a master of language. I bow before the man who could see and say at this high level. Vivienne

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William F. Dougherty 23 January 2011

A masterly sonnet on a delicate analogy. 'Ut pictura poesis.'

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