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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... Wordsworth's elaborate self - excusing . The Solitary is unbalanced by his wife's death : despair drives him to ... Wordsworth assumed a righteousness proportionate to his sense of guilt ; and Coleridge , aware of guilt only in himself ...
... Wordsworth's elaborate self - excusing . The Solitary is unbalanced by his wife's death : despair drives him to ... Wordsworth assumed a righteousness proportionate to his sense of guilt ; and Coleridge , aware of guilt only in himself ...
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... Wordsworth's huge output , replied with ' To William Wordsworth ' , in the decayed family - servant style , humbly grateful for mention in a work . that seemed a classic as soon as written . He said that on first hearing it read he ...
... Wordsworth's huge output , replied with ' To William Wordsworth ' , in the decayed family - servant style , humbly grateful for mention in a work . that seemed a classic as soon as written . He said that on first hearing it read he ...
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... Wordsworth . You will find it in all the literary histories . ' The Age of is a political term . One may legitimately talk of the Age of Pericles , because Pericles was the most energetic and gifted statesman of fifth - century Athens ...
... Wordsworth . You will find it in all the literary histories . ' The Age of is a political term . One may legitimately talk of the Age of Pericles , because Pericles was the most energetic and gifted statesman of fifth - century Athens ...
Contents
Observations on Poetry 19221925 | 1 |
The Poetic Trance | 3 |
Prose and Poetry | 5 |
Copyright | |
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