Acquainted with the Night

Canham, Hamish

• Series Editor’s Preface -- Foreword -- Introduction -- The vale of soul-making -- “First time ever”: writing the poem in potential space -- Wordless words: poetry and the symmetry of being -- The poet and the superego: Klein, Blake and the Book of the Prophet Ezekiel -- “Time will come and take my love away”: love and loss in three of Shakespeare’s sonnets -- The preacher, the poet, and the psychoanalyst -- Ghosts in the landscape: Thomas Hardy and the poetry of “shapes that reveries limn” -- The elusive pursuit of insight: three poems by W. B. Yeats and the human task -- “Feeling into Words”: evocations of childhood in the poems of Seamus Heaney