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100 1 $aBrownlow, Timothy.
245 10 $aHiding places :$bessays /$cTimothy Brownlow.
260 $aLantzville, B.C. :$bOolichan Books,$c2008.
300 $a269 p. ;$c22 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 259-266).
505 00 $tFairies and Ferries --$tThe Naming of Parts --$tAcquiring a Second Skin --$tThe Loneliness of the Long-Distance Writer --$tNiche Work If You Can Get It --$tRandom Reflections on Literature and Teaching --$tBalancing Acts --$tCasting Off Muddy Vestures --$tDreaming in an Immense World --$tA Literary Pilgrim in Europe --$tOnly Connect --$tThe Singing-Masters of My Soul --$tRousseau: Taking the Rough with the Smooth --$tPoetry for Supper --$tCurriculum for Bards --$tAnd Joy the Art of True Believing --$tThe Weight of Too Much Liberty --$tFieldwork --$tLate Expectations --$tA Taste of Ireland.
520 1 $a"These essays are forays into what Wordsworth called the "hiding places" of the creative impulse. Sometimes in aphoristic form, this selection of meditations on the arts of poetry and teaching functions as an indirect self-portrait and probes the poet's Irish heritage.
520 8 $aFor Brownlow, there is a fruitful tension between scholarship and poetry; too often divorced, these activities are not for him mutually exclusive. This book asserts the autonomy of the literary imagination.
520 8 $aHis aim is to be, as in Whitman's great line, "aplomb in the midst of irrational things." In a wide-ranging journey through time and space, the scholar takes note of significant historical detail, while the poet extends his range of sensation: he eats an explosive peach in Sicily; finds the inventor of the English sonnet in an English castle; lectures on the Irish writers' love of France in Voltaire's village, Ferney-Voltaire; counts great poets in Cambridge; finds Zen in John Clare; evokes the ghost of Shakespeare in rural Lancashire; remembers musical performances and readings of poetry that tuned his inner ear; walks the cliff path at Howth where Yeats had courted Maud Gonne; and finds community in classrooms while imparting this eclectic sense of taste."--Jacket.
650 0 $aCanadian essays.
776 08 $iOnline version:$aBrownlow, Timothy.$tHiding places.$dLantzville, B.C. : Oolichan Books, 2008$w(OCoLC)649051794
988 $a20081231
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