Poems from an Attic: Selected Poems, 1936-95 by Iris Murdoch #literature considers the impact of language

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Five Little Monkeys

it falls upon Maralyn to keep them both alive

Only the extraordinary are chosen

to be touched by them

Poems from an Attic: Selected Poems, 1936-95 by Iris Murdoch #literature considers the impact of languageA definitive collection of poems by the major twentieth century novelist and philosopher, newly discovered in the attic of Murdoch's former home. While she is pre eminent as one of the twentieth century's great novelists and philosophers, Murdoch's life as a poet has languished in the shadows. Yet throughout her life she wrote, revised and re wrote a sizeable collection of poems; publishing some but keeping many private and ultimately shut in a chest