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Critical Misgivings
McClatchy, J. D. | May 5, 1984 issue

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This article presents information about the books "The Arts Without Mystery," by Denis Donoghue, and "Introspection and Contemporary Poetry," by Alan Williamson. Mystery is the presumptive center of Donoghue's argument but he can only back up to it. It is, he urges, the rich and strange essence of art, its privilege and presence. If the arts are marginal in society, then it is on the margins that freedom is found, and mystery is its arena. Williamson's book is animated by the high seriousness, by the same sense of conviction and misgiving that Donoghue calls for. Williamson is not primarily interested in personalities, but in modes of personal poetry.

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BOOKS; ARTS Without Mystery, The (Book); INTROSPECTION & Contemporary Poetry (Book); WILLIAMSON, Alan; DONOGHUE, Denis; POETRY
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