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His quicksilver shifts of register--from the lyrical to the scrupulously historical to the scatalogical (he is also the poet of shit) to the ontological/hysterical to the goofball to the vatic and prophetic--are the work of a virtuoso. Of The Actual (1997), Amis observes: "The desire for vatic speech is undimmed, yet no riffs, no party pieces, accompany it. Celenza stresses (as he has in several articles) the importance both of Ficino's "overall vatic image of Pythagoras" (whom Ambrose had declared was born a Jew) and of his role in crafting a "vatic sensibility" in Florence (26). |
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