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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... heart As joy delights in ; and with wise restraint Voluptuous , fearless of a rival , eyed The banquet ; - or beneath the trees I sate Among the flowers and with the flowers I played ; ... ... a bower beneath whose leaves The violets of ...
... heart As joy delights in ; and with wise restraint Voluptuous , fearless of a rival , eyed The banquet ; - or beneath the trees I sate Among the flowers and with the flowers I played ; ... ... a bower beneath whose leaves The violets of ...
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... heart of a true lover . Skelton writes with profound sadness to his unnamed Muse : Remorse have I of your most goodlihood , Of your behaviour courteous and bening , Of your bountee and of your womanhood Which maketh my heart oft to leap ...
... heart of a true lover . Skelton writes with profound sadness to his unnamed Muse : Remorse have I of your most goodlihood , Of your behaviour courteous and bening , Of your bountee and of your womanhood Which maketh my heart oft to leap ...
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... heart and soul . " The Faithful Lover Wisheth All Evil May Befall Him if He Forsake His Lady ' reads typically : The knot which first my heart did strain , When that your servant I becam , Doth bind me still for to remain , Always your ...
... heart and soul . " The Faithful Lover Wisheth All Evil May Befall Him if He Forsake His Lady ' reads typically : The knot which first my heart did strain , When that your servant I becam , Doth bind me still for to remain , Always your ...
Contents
Observations on Poetry 19221925 | 1 |
The Poetic Trance | 3 |
Prose and Poetry | 5 |
Copyright | |
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