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Harvey Holton Holton's poem-sequence FINN,as its title at once shows,is a treatment of a figure from ancient Gaelic lore;and the association of the Celtic past with the contemporary cultural scene is emphasized by his use of titles which recall Yeats in the WIND AMONG THE REEDS:FINN NAMES THE BEGINNIN AN THINKS OAN THE HUNT. The intense and disturbing combination of mystical vision and strong physical imagery to evoke the vitality and the ruthlessness of the natural world in IN THE SILENT LICHT O THE BLUID is more than slightly reminiscent of Dylan Thomas. The Caledonian pine (in Holton's poem of that name) here becomes a symbol with something approaching ,if not reaching, the power of MacDairmid J.Derrick
McClure:Language,Poetry and Nationhood. |
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