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Acknowledgments
I am most especially and fondly grateful to L. L. Lee, Phyllis Rose, Gary Clevidence, and Rose Moss, who encouraged and challenged me so generously; to Ed Rubacha, Joan Jurale, Susan Magovern, Shirley Henn, and Louis Mink, who helped track sources; to the Ossabaw Foundation and Wesleyan University, which granted me time and space; and to Mary Connie Comfort, who fed the cats.
About the Author
Annie Dillard is the author of ten other books, including the Pulitzer Prize winner Pilgrim at Tinker Creek , as well as An American Childhood, The Living , and Mornings Like This. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and has received fellowship grants from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.
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Books by Annie Dillard
Modern American Memoirs
The Annie Dillard Reader
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
The Maytrees
For the Time Being
Mornings
Like This
The Living
The Writing Life
An American Childhood
Encounters with Chinese Writers
Teaching a Stone to Talk
Living by Fiction
Holy the Firm
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*There are no opposing camps; there is no struggle. Each writer is a one-man camp, unallied and unarmed, a lone bivouac under heaven.
*This, clearly, would be a religious, even creationist, reading of the universe. Note how it differs from pantheism. It reads the universe as a significant art object, not as part of a stream of being which includes the observer, and not as personal message. Pantheism is not the only meaningful reading of the natural world. One need not find a spirit in each bush and rock for these things to mean. The bush and rock may be, as it were, literary symbols. But of what? If we could only see the first draft, or locate some letters!
*Incidentally, “Kubla Khan” also raises the question of its own beauty. Why is it so beautiful? Why do otherwise rational people—sober, grouchy, skeptical people—turn soft in the head about “Kubla Khan”? Why is this creepy-crawly, misty, overlandscaped, striving-after-beautiful-effect, water-colorish little portentous poem one of the most beautiful and powerful poems in English?