"If our auditory imaginations were sufficiently tuned to plumb and sound a vowel, to unite the most primitive and civilized associations, the word 'undine' would probably suffice as a poem in itself." Seamus Heaney
yes, the quote (re. the word 'Undine') is from Seamus Heaney's 'Preoccupations' (1980) p.52, in which he discusses his poem by that name (which can be found in his collection 'Door Into the Dark'), and how it came about. The sentence begins like this: "It was the dark pool of the sound of the word that took me: if our auditory imaginations ... etc."
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ReplyDeletelove the quote at the top of your blog, do you have a source?
yes, the quote (re. the word 'Undine') is from Seamus Heaney's 'Preoccupations' (1980) p.52, in which he discusses his poem by that name (which can be found in his collection 'Door Into the Dark'), and how it came about. The sentence begins like this:
Delete"It was the dark pool of the sound of the word that took me: if our auditory imaginations ... etc."