The passages of joy by Thom Gunn

The passages of joy

Thom Gunn

93 pages first pub 1982 (editions)

emotional reflective medium-paced
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The Passages of Joy draws it's title from Samuel Johnson's poem "The Vanity of Human Wishes": "Time hovered o'er, impatient to destroy/And shuts up all the Passages of Joy." The book ends with a poem about a modern cab driver on a night shift in S...

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