Collected Writings on PoetryCarcanet Press, 1995 - 560 pages The phases of his critical writing are distinct, linked by a serious creative intent and a remarkable eloquence. From the 1925 volume Poetic Unreason and Other Studies to his collaborative works with Laura Riding (not included here), to The Common Asphodel (1949) and other work, much of it hard to find, Graves's concerns and discoveries are often momentous. It is as though, almost single-handed through the harsh anti-Romantic years and into the decades of irony, he maintained and defended the lyric tradition, making it classical and viable against the tide. As advocate, polemicist and mythographer, he has exercised a constant influence on poets, readers and critics ill at ease with fashion, hungry for the traditions that underlie the merely conventional. |
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... Italians that a ' frozen Hyperborean ' could be a man of charm , sensibility and erudition . The Italians have always been pleased to welcome distinguished Northerners who talk fluent Italian , know their Virgil , and write fairly ...
... Italians that a ' frozen Hyperborean ' could be a man of charm , sensibility and erudition . The Italians have always been pleased to welcome distinguished Northerners who talk fluent Italian , know their Virgil , and write fairly ...
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... Italy , try to give no offence : foreshadow the present era when every Italian is proud to call himself a Roman . Meanwhile , the Emperor will maintain you worthily . How would you like a house on the Esquiline Hill , near my gardens ...
... Italy , try to give no offence : foreshadow the present era when every Italian is proud to call himself a Roman . Meanwhile , the Emperor will maintain you worthily . How would you like a house on the Esquiline Hill , near my gardens ...
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... Italian borrowings from Virgil by the fifteenth- century Italian Baptista Mantuanus , and from Mantuanus by Sannazaro the Neopolitan ; and further English borrowings from Sannazaro by the Elizabethan University wits Greene , Peele ...
... Italian borrowings from Virgil by the fifteenth- century Italian Baptista Mantuanus , and from Mantuanus by Sannazaro the Neopolitan ; and further English borrowings from Sannazaro by the Elizabethan University wits Greene , Peele ...
Contents
Observations on Poetry 19221925 | 1 |
The Poetic Trance | 3 |
Prose and Poetry | 5 |
Copyright | |
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