Topics, Tropes, Arguments II: Sequences

Topics, Tropes, Arguments II: Sequences”: Jean Paulhan’s dense, dizzying, delightful yet daunting book Les fleurs de Tarbes, ou terreur dans les lettres (1941), along with helpful elucidatory passages from his equally wondrous (and equally neglected) essay, “Key to Poetry,” can guide and be guided by a close reading of W. H. Auden’s less complex but similarly puzzling and paradoxical poem, “Law Like Love.”