The Silence by John Greening Harvard University Press the scattered village and the

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The Silence by John Greening Harvard University Press the scattered village and theThe title poem of John Greenings The Silence is a meditation on Sibelius and the thirty years he spent grappling with an eighth symphony that he eventually burned. The poem is emblematic of a broader concern with the mystery of the creative process, explored in the work of other artists but also grappled with first hand, in the composition of poems. Death, that most emphatic of silences, is a recurring theme; but so too is the bright potentiality of