one of them, his hand would have met no physical resistance since the shades would melt into the air. Tate stands in awe of Dante's abilities to express such a large concept or picture in so few words. He says, "I believe we all wish we had been able not only to write better poems, but poems that say much more than we have been able to say, while at the same time seeming to say less."(452) In 1953, Jacques Maritain, a French philosopher, theologian, educator, and essayist, wrote "The Three Epiphanies of Creative Intuition", in his book, Creative Intuition in Art and Poetry. He wrote about how Dante's Divine Comedy is at the same time poetry of the song, poetry of the theater, and poetry of the tale. They are the three epiphanies of poetic intuition. Maritain believes that the essence of the song appears everywhere in the Divine Comedy, but more so in Paradiso, while drama appears everywhere, especially in Purgatorio, and novel is found everywhere, but especially in the Inferno. (386-387)
“horizon of possible meanings is determined by the conjuncture of two historical moments, the moment of writing and the moment of reading”, can surely be accepted. Another monograph applying the method of historicism, published fourteen years after Regan’s is Stephen Cooper’s Philip Larkin: Subversive Writer (2004). 1.2. LARKIN STYLISTIC MAP When approaching the poems of Larkin as if were compressed stories, John Bayley emphasizes his value of epiphanies. When describes (referring to territory of poem anecdotal that is almost story) about what entirely consists his “new way of exploring that territory” (1988, 272), Bayley does not do more than reform the poetic text definition that we have handled in the present work - a text in which the information highly is concentrated and organized in the following terms: “I have you use the shorthand of poetry to block in a situation in a way that
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