Tuesday Vrzhu - Quote Quiz - Updike Poem

Part Three

Who said: "there seems to be a desire for austerity and bareness, a striving towards structure and away from the messiness and confusion of nature and natural things."

a. Richard Howard
b. Adam Kirsch
c. T. E. Hulme
d. T. S. Eliot
e. Philip Whalen

Part Four

Who said: "Poetry will flourish - in terminal capitalism as in terminating communism - only when it is harder to find, when it is perceived as a valuable and virtually disallowed production that must be sought by need and by desire."

a. Geoffrey Hill
b. T. E. Hulme
c. August Kleinzahler
d. Richard Howard
e. Frederick Seidel

Part Five

Who said: "All poetry is an affair of the body – that is, to be real it must affect the body."

a. T. E. Hulme
b. Alan Ginsberg
c. Robert Pinsky
d. James Dickey
e. Robert Howard

Next Week: The thrilling conclusion to QUOTE QUIZ! All will be answered!

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Here's that Updike poem I was thinking about.

LOVE SONNET

In Love’s rubber armor I come to you;
                                                         b
                                                  oo
                                                           b.
                                                c,
                                                    d
                                                    c
                                                      d:
                                                 e
                                              f –
                                                  e
                                                   f.
                                                         g
                                                     g.

from Midpoint and other poems by John Updike, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1969