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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... beauty in the Puritan - Stoic system of values . He holds that if all the world should in petulance feed on pulse , drink water , and wear only frieze , mankind . would be strangled by the unused fertility of Nature : Th ' earth cumber ...
... beauty in the Puritan - Stoic system of values . He holds that if all the world should in petulance feed on pulse , drink water , and wear only frieze , mankind . would be strangled by the unused fertility of Nature : Th ' earth cumber ...
Page 314
... beauty , he has substituted Domina for Domine in all his Biblical quotations . ' Deal boun- teously with thy servant , that I may live , and my lips shall praise thee . Teach me , Lady , the way of thy statutes . As the hart panteth for ...
... beauty , he has substituted Domina for Domine in all his Biblical quotations . ' Deal boun- teously with thy servant , that I may live , and my lips shall praise thee . Teach me , Lady , the way of thy statutes . As the hart panteth for ...
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... beauty is to me Like those Nicean barks of yore That gently , o'er a perfumed sea , The weary way - worn wanderer bore To his own native shore . On desperate seas long wont to roam , Thy hyacinth hair , thy classic face , Thy Naiad airs ...
... beauty is to me Like those Nicean barks of yore That gently , o'er a perfumed sea , The weary way - worn wanderer bore To his own native shore . On desperate seas long wont to roam , Thy hyacinth hair , thy classic face , Thy Naiad airs ...
Contents
Observations on Poetry 19221925 | 1 |
The Poetic Trance | 3 |
Prose and Poetry | 5 |
Copyright | |
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