Writing Problems: Anxiety
Donne, Freud, Kafka, Glück, Ammons, Ponsot, Osier, Gilbert
John Donne:
Temporal prosperity comes always with accompanied with much anxiety.
Sigmund Freud (tr. from German by A.A. Brill):
A quantum of freely floating anxiety which controls the ideas by expectation.
In a recent conversation between Dana Levin and Natalie Scenters-Zapico in The Yale Review they discuss the function of anxiety in poetry. They discuss t…
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