Maurice Manning: The Burning Boy and the Goose Girl (July 2017)

In this examination of how poetic creation parallels the “creative economy” of Nature, Manning illustrates how both are efficient and self-sustaining, and yet both anticipate and provide for subsequent creativity. Examples from Felicia Hemans, Bishop, Hopkins, Heaney, Hardy, and others show how one work of art leads to another—often many years later and in surprising contexts.