Edward Clarke teaches English literature at Oxford. His book, The Vagabond Spirit of Poetry invites you to spend some time with the wisest poets of our age and the past to discover your spiritual potential.

The book ranges widely, taking in thinkers and poets from around the world.

1. Wordsworth’s Survival on Earth
Spots of time
Out damned spot
A moment in each day
Was it for this?
Gentle powers
2. Ye Elves
Supernatural aid
The one-in-many and the many-in-one

3. Shakespeare’s Seven Acts of Soul
Deep things
Eternal lines
Stage by stage
4. The Poet as Avatar
Milton, melancholy and the meaning of Urania
Perennial wisdom from Spenser to Coleridge

5. What Hope Does a Modern Poet Have?
W. B. Yeats
When confusion fell upon our thought
Wallace Stevens

 

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