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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... feel most comfortable in modern society by viewing himself as a marginalized figure in lonely occupation of the moral high ground , surely has a great deal to do with the trauma of his experiences in the First World War . He survived ...
... feel most comfortable in modern society by viewing himself as a marginalized figure in lonely occupation of the moral high ground , surely has a great deal to do with the trauma of his experiences in the First World War . He survived ...
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... feel . But it is extremely unlikely that he will feel any qualms about the justice of the British cause or about the necessity of the war's continuance ; so that , even if he has experienced the terrors of an air raid , he will not feel ...
... feel . But it is extremely unlikely that he will feel any qualms about the justice of the British cause or about the necessity of the war's continuance ; so that , even if he has experienced the terrors of an air raid , he will not feel ...
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... feels unclean when his body has betrayed him , and finds sex a dirty word : it implies an adulterated public view of a ... feel a natural need for children , her poet may well seem the most unsuitable possible choice as a husband : his ...
... feels unclean when his body has betrayed him , and finds sex a dirty word : it implies an adulterated public view of a ... feel a natural need for children , her poet may well seem the most unsuitable possible choice as a husband : his ...
Contents
Observations on Poetry 19221925 | 1 |
The Poetic Trance | 3 |
Prose and Poetry | 5 |
Copyright | |
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