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Filled with Some Other Power

Denise Levertov’s beautiful poem “The Well” works as a commentary on John’s gospel account of the Samaritan woman at the well.

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Our Second Self, the Woman at the Well

A Carolyne Wright poem about the Samaritan woman at the well shows us a figure searching for spiritual truth beneath the “brackish water” of her life.

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Chaucer’s Riff on the Woman at the Well

Seen in the light of the Samaritan woman at the well, Chaucer’s Wife of Bath is one of Christ’s messengers.

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