The Chimney

There is nothing worse, I think, than paraphrasing a poem, much less a whole manuscript of poems. Doing so wrongly implies that poetry exists mainly as ideas, and not, as it truly does, as words. Thus, that an "abstract" should summarize the writing in this thesis seems to me not only impossible, but also undesirable. Instead, for an expression of my methodology I offer the poems themselves, many of which take the form of the ars poetica; they discuss what I try to do when writing far better than I ever could here. All I can say to introduce the poems, then, is that I hope they speak for themselves.

Department dc:contributor.department

English

Year dc:date.issued

1995

Author dc:creator

• Phillips, Patrick

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Plumly, Stanley

Language dc:language.iso

en_US

Identifier

https://doi.org/10.13016/jh1l-haut

Dc Identifier Other

ILLiad # 1260998

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:drum.lib.umd.edu:1903/24881