Essay on Pope in Bloomington, MN

Edward Dorn and an American scholar have agreed to meet in London on the 300th anniversary of Alexander Pope's birth. Due to the formal nature and current conditions of Poetry and Scholarship, the two miss connections-Dorn participating in ceremonies at Pope's Tomb; and our narrator the Gloomy Clerk arriving at the Grotto. Antonin Artaud engineers a conceptual Bridge between the oppositions of life or death.