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‘In the Path of Blake’: Dylan Thomas's ‘Altarwise by Owl-Light’, Sonnet I

‘In the Path of Blake’: Dylan Thomas's ‘Altarwise by Owl-Light’, Sonnet I Damian Walford Davies : Dylan Thomas's 'Altarwise by Owl-Light', Sonnet I Altarwise by owl-light in the halfway-house The gentleman lay graveward with his furies; Abaddon in the hang-nail cracked from Adam, And, from his fork, a dog among the fairies, The atlas-eater with a jaw for news, Bit out the mandrake with tomorrow's scream. Then, penny-eyed, that gentleman of wounds, Old cock from nowheres and the heaven's egg, With bones unbuttoned to the halfway winds, Hatched from the windy salvage on one leg, Scraped at my cradle in a walking word That night of time under the Christward shelter, I am the long world's gentleman, he said, And share my bed with Capricorn and Cancer.1 in the path , Dylan Thomas wrote to Pamela Hansford Johnson on 15 October 1933, 'but so far behind him that only the wings on his heels are in sight'. Thomas often acknowledged the debt, recognising Blake in 1951 as one of his 'incomparable and inimitable masters'.2 The am image of a poetic master not standing authoritatively behind the young poet but flying ahead of him defines Blake as a living presence to be caught up with. On Christmas Day 1933, Thomas wrote http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Romanticism Edinburgh University Press

‘In the Path of Blake’: Dylan Thomas's ‘Altarwise by Owl-Light’, Sonnet I

DAVIES, DAMIAN WALFORD
Romanticism , Volume 3 (1): 91 – Jan 1, 1997
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Damian Walford Davies : Dylan Thomas's 'Altarwise by Owl-Light', Sonnet I Altarwise by owl-light in the halfway-house The gentleman lay graveward with his furies; Abaddon in the hang-nail cracked from Adam, And, from his fork, a dog among the fairies, The atlas-eater with a jaw for news, Bit out the mandrake with tomorrow's scream. Then, penny-eyed, that gentleman of wounds, Old cock from nowheres and the heaven's egg, With bones unbuttoned to the halfway winds, Hatched from the windy salvage on one leg, Scraped at my cradle in a walking word That night of time under the Christward shelter, I am the long world's gentleman, he said, And share my bed with Capricorn and Cancer.1 in the path , Dylan Thomas wrote to Pamela Hansford Johnson on 15 October 1933, 'but so far behind him that only the wings on his heels are in sight'. Thomas often acknowledged the debt, recognising Blake in 1951 as one of his 'incomparable and inimitable masters'.2 The am image of a poetic master not standing authoritatively behind the young poet but flying ahead of him defines Blake as a living presence to be caught up with. On Christmas Day 1933, Thomas wrote

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