All Souls by Saskia Hamilton

Author:Saskia Hamilton [Hamilton, Saskia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Published: 2023-04-15T00:00:00+00:00

Amsterdam → Zutphen

Late departure, hot carriage slowing

just minutes out of the station.

The book opens to June 1797,

Wordsworth and Coleridge meet again,

1798, travel together,

W. homesick, C. to Göttingen.

Beechwood below, grass, fern, brambles.

W. ‘felt more invested in memory

than philosophy.’ Rows of mown fields.

Now and again, at speed, life at rest—

train drivers chatting, small child on a giant bench,

distorted clanging at the crossings,

two horses, a donkey, the first animals,

then open landscape, nature ‘a realm

of intuitions and affections,’

interrupted by discharged soldiers, the dead,

all that was cut down hanging still in the scent,

leaving the west for the east, O. in decline,

stricken and anxious alders, aren’t we all,

copse of birch, then mostly beech.

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