SOURCE: Bloom, Harold. “James Dickey: From ‘The Other’ through the The Early Motion.” Southern Review 21, no. 1 (winter 1985): 63-78.
In the following essay, Bloom assesses Dickey's pre-1965 poetry, commenting on such pieces as “The Other,” “Drowning With Others,” “In the Mountain Tent,” “Approaching Prayer,” and “Drinking from a Helmet.”
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