Immersion in Nature’s Creative Surge in Eugène Guillevic and Wendell Berry
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Abstract
Abstract Poetry lovers worldwide appreciate the French poet Eugène Guillevic (1907–1997). However, most criticism on him emanates from France, the United Kingdom, and Canada, where his canonicity is self-evident, especially given recent conference proceedings and posthumous poetry collections. Are there singularly American perspectives through which we reach, to paraphrase a translation of Guillevic by the Anglo-American poet Denise Levertov, the “live coal’s core” that animates beings and things? How do poets make us experience this “noyau de braise” that enlivens matter, sparks connections between the human and nonhuman worlds, and allows us to see even rocks as spurred on by an inner dance? The present study of poetry and the sacred places works by the American poet-essayist Wendell Berry (1934–) alongside Guillevic’s to explore traits that in the USA can make these writers, paradoxically, at once canonical and less critically noticed. With Guillevic as its point of departure, this study discusses how the sweet ripening, inward clarity, and shared growth these poets depict attune us to the sacred that pervades the natural world and to dialogue with ourselves and our surroundings. Foregrounded for analysis are Trouées and Motifs, alongside Berry’s New Collected Poems and Sabbath Poems Collected and New.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.007 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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