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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... face is thine eye , thine in mine appears , And true plain hearts do in the faces rest , Where can we find two better hemispheres Without sharp North , without declining West ? Whatever dies was not mixed equally ; If our two loves be ...
... face is thine eye , thine in mine appears , And true plain hearts do in the faces rest , Where can we find two better hemispheres Without sharp North , without declining West ? Whatever dies was not mixed equally ; If our two loves be ...
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... face , Thy Naiad airs have brought me home To the glory that was Greece , And the grandeur that was Rome ... so that it seems that Helen's hyacinth hair and classic face are long wont to roam on desperate seas . The explanation seems to ...
... face , Thy Naiad airs have brought me home To the glory that was Greece , And the grandeur that was Rome ... so that it seems that Helen's hyacinth hair and classic face are long wont to roam on desperate seas . The explanation seems to ...
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... face . Alas ( thought I , and my heart beat loud ) How fast she nears and nears ! Are those her sails that glance in the Sun , Like restless gossameres ? Are those her ribs through which the Sun Did peer , as through a grate ? And is ...
... face . Alas ( thought I , and my heart beat loud ) How fast she nears and nears ! Are those her sails that glance in the Sun , Like restless gossameres ? Are those her ribs through which the Sun Did peer , as through a grate ? And is ...
Contents
Observations on Poetry 19221925 | 1 |
The Poetic Trance | 3 |
Prose and Poetry | 5 |
Copyright | |
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