Any of you read this yet?
I feel a little squeamish after seeing the cover design, but “literary frolic”? I think it might be able to outweigh the horrendous cover and the terrible typesetting inside portended by said cover.
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I am going to pick up my copy on my next visit to Dallas. I'm very excited, and have heard good things about it.
I am halfway through it. I was not lucky enough to ever have a class with Dr. Curtsinger, but I think that this book must be the next best thing.
The quote that I think best sums up the book:
"You might have memorized Cliff Notes and know the list of character and the plot, but you don't really have the story until you dance with the characters and feel the bones beneath the flesh and note how the mysterious inner light of allegory enlivens all the poem. What is seascape (the literal level) without a soul? Glimpsing an allegory doesn't explain the work. It sings to the mysteries of your own immortal depths and gilds your vision of the living poem, for allegory itself disappear in deeper allegories. All art is akin. If you go spiraling down and down and reach the base of any great work of art, we find the most wonderful of poems waiting for us there. Its name is Jesus."