[PW] Similarities WAS poem about galaxies and orbs and things

[Jeanne Schramm]

In searching for poems with the line, "Only himself he cannot solve," I was
struck by the similar approaches used by Louis Ginsberg (Morning in Spring:
and Other Poems, 1970) and Lionel Wiggam (Landscape with Figures, 1936).

GINSBERG: "Man ... Whose mind harpoons / The secrets of stars ... and orbs
that revolve / Only himself he cannot solve ..."

WIGGAM: "Though he knows how world's evolve / Himself he cannot solve ... "
[Published in College Verse, College Poetry Society of America, 1931]

I wondered if perhaps their paths might have crossed somewhere.  Well, they
are both from New Jersey. Ginsberg was a poet and high school teacher.
Wiggam was a student at Princeton (and was the 1943 Class Poet).



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