Wilbur's Digging for China.(Richard Wilbur) From: The Explicator | Date: January 1, 2006| Author: Buzan, Mary | COPYRIGHT 2006 Heldref Publications. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Richard Wilbur's poems link simple childhood experiences, spiritual depth, and philosophical issues in ways that amply reward close readings. Take, for example, his lyric narrative "Digging for China." In this poetic reflection about a childhood event, Wilbur captures the delicacy and power of mystical experience, while also illuminating the philosophical distinction between subjective and objective. Exemplifying speech-act principles elaborated in Richard Hart's "The Lyric as Fict...

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