![]() ![]() But I love churches, going into churches, listening to the language. I found myself very much a part of that particular history, those hymns and those words and prayers, that specific phraseology. The language that surrounded me in the church was the language that had been used for 400 years. It was in the ’60s-right before there were really big changes in the language of the liturgy: a new English Bible, new forms of Anglican worship. Milton never went to hell either.īut I should say that my other connection to that story, the temptation and fall, is that I grew up as a Christian in the Christian tradition. Then he took a pencil from his pocket, stirred the wine until the powder had dissolved, and replaced the stopper. The descriptions of the North-those are out of Book 2 of Paradise Lost, and my imagination, and other books I’ve read. So I suppose I could be a Romantic poet: post-Romantic or imitation-Romantic, if you like. All of the cultural poets of that time are very close to me. ![]() ![]() I reveled in and loved the Romantic poets-Keats, Shelley, Coleridge-and Romantic music, too. Well, I suppose that would be a fair description. ![]()
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