Plato's Ladder
by Romer, StephenFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1993-01-21
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press
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Summary
Idols established Stephen Romer as a poet of tempering wit, philosophicaleloquence, and emotional candour. This long-awaited second volume develops manyof the same themes, but the scope is considerably broadened.'Plato's Ladder' is an emblem of aspiration, and many of the poems explore thattheme, or compulsion, as it is experienced in art, but also in the less serenehistories of personal relationships. The recurrent shocks and consolations oftime and memory are continually recorded in an attempt to make sense of them.The poet's approach and location vary from the boldly direct to the ironicretrospect.
Author Biography
About the Author:
Stephen Romer, a British poet now living in France, is Maitre de Conferences at the University of Tours.
Table of Contents
| On the Golden Isle, Amboise | p. 9 |
| Adult Single | p. 10 |
| Work | p. 11 |
| The Work | p. 12 |
| The Inimitable | p. 14 |
| The Other House | p. 16 |
| Beneath the Tree | p. 18 |
| Cucaratxa | p. 20 |
| Mythologies 1: Temptation | p. 22 |
| Mythologies 2: Painter | p. 22 |
| Mythologies 3: Virgin | p. 23 |
| The Master in Italy | p. 24 |
| Bellagio | p. 25 |
| Cautionary Tale | p. 29 |
| Portrait: Premature Mid-Life | p. 30 |
| Departures | p. 32 |
| Serenissima | p. 33 |
| Maltese Fireworks | p. 34 |
| On the Shiants | p. 35 |
| Olivia on the Hebrides | p. 36 |
| Plato's Ladder: a Dialogue | p. 38 |
| The Weight of It | p. 39 |
| In the Country | p. 40 |
| Picardy | p. 41 |
| Succession | p. 43 |
| Trust | p. 44 |
| Roissy, December 1987 | p. 45 |
| For Paul | p. 47 |
| Petit Air | p. 48 |
| Prophecy | p. 49 |
| At a Glimpse | p. 50 |
| Val de Loire | p. 51 |
| Tablet of the Law | p. 54 |
| The Titans | p. 55 |
| Westward-Ho | p. 56 |
| Lodz | p. 57 |
| Night Life | p. 62 |
| Sweet Confusion | p. 64 |
| Sailing to Sopot | p. 66 |
| Dissident | p. 68 |
| Tea for the Native Speaker | p. 69 |
| In a Polish Forest | p. 71 |
| All Souls | p. 72 |
| The Satrap | p. 74 |
| A Letter from America | p. 76 |
| The Heroes | p. 78 |
| Author's Note | p. 79 |
| Table of Contents provided by Blackwell. All Rights Reserved. |
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