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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... least , even those research professors who are at pains to improvise a supplementary vocabulary of extraordinary ones . Instinct and the Unconscious by Dr W.H.R. Rivers , a most important contribution to modern psychological research ...
... least , even those research professors who are at pains to improvise a supplementary vocabulary of extraordinary ones . Instinct and the Unconscious by Dr W.H.R. Rivers , a most important contribution to modern psychological research ...
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... least in pre - Christian poets who , unless they belonged to some mystery religion , had no hopes of a glorious after- world . Few men can imagine the world going on without them , and most serious ones would therefore like to achieve ...
... least in pre - Christian poets who , unless they belonged to some mystery religion , had no hopes of a glorious after- world . Few men can imagine the world going on without them , and most serious ones would therefore like to achieve ...
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... least of equal quality . Graves does not convince here . He has produced a prosy New English Bible sort of Khayaam , whose cloudy mysticism raises more questions about evil than it answers . At the very least , Fitzgerald found a decent ...
... least of equal quality . Graves does not convince here . He has produced a prosy New English Bible sort of Khayaam , whose cloudy mysticism raises more questions about evil than it answers . At the very least , Fitzgerald found a decent ...
Contents
Observations on Poetry 19221925 | 1 |
The Poetic Trance | 3 |
Prose and Poetry | 5 |
Copyright | |
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