http://www.reliefjournal.com/2010/03/11/white-sheep-black-sheep-the-literary-kinship-of-emily-dickinson-and-edna-st-vincent-millay/ Christian writing unbound. Tue, 17 Jan 2012 15:03:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.reliefjournal.com/2010/03/11/white-sheep-black-sheep-the-literary-kinship-of-emily-dickinson-and-edna-st-vincent-millay/#comment-686 Geoff M. Pope Fri, 12 Mar 2010 04:29:31 +0000 http://www.reliefjournal.com/?p=927#comment-686 Perspicacious piece, taking me back to a front row seat at Taproot Theatre in Seattle, where I saw *The Great Divorce*. I went on a search tonight for a quote to complement your complex and captivating penultimate sentence -- "...both wrestle with the tensions between different worlds they belong to and compellingly represent this through putting pressure on inherited forms" -- but I couldn't find a fitting one. So how about lines from another of Lewis's lesser known books: "It was when I was happiest that I longed most.... The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing...to find the place where all the beauty came from" (*Till We Have Faces*). Perspicacious piece, taking me back to a front row seat at Taproot Theatre in Seattle, where I saw *The Great Divorce*. I went on a search tonight for a quote to complement your complex and captivating penultimate sentence — “…both wrestle with the tensions between different worlds they belong to and compellingly represent this through putting pressure on inherited forms” — but I couldn’t find a fitting one. So how about lines from another of Lewis’s lesser known books: “It was when I was happiest that I longed most…. The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing…to find the place where all the beauty came from” (*Till We Have Faces*).

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