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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... leave her horning , But I'll find merry mad Maudline , And seek whate'er betides her , And I will love beneath or above The dirty earth that hides her . Till then I sing , etc. I suppose , in fact , that the author of Q discarded the ...
... leave her horning , But I'll find merry mad Maudline , And seek whate'er betides her , And I will love beneath or above The dirty earth that hides her . Till then I sing , etc. I suppose , in fact , that the author of Q discarded the ...
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... leave to the unkind children ' I had by her , having received no part of it ; but my meaning is , they shall have no other benefit of my estate than the said portion and what I have besides done for them , they having been very ...
... leave to the unkind children ' I had by her , having received no part of it ; but my meaning is , they shall have no other benefit of my estate than the said portion and what I have besides done for them , they having been very ...
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... leaves before the mellowing year . Bitter constraint , and sad occasion dear , Compels me to disturb your season due ... leaves which go brown and ivy leaves that stay green ; whereas both sorts of leaf go brown in old age and fall off ...
... leaves before the mellowing year . Bitter constraint , and sad occasion dear , Compels me to disturb your season due ... leaves which go brown and ivy leaves that stay green ; whereas both sorts of leaf go brown in old age and fall off ...
Contents
Observations on Poetry 19221925 | 1 |
The Poetic Trance | 3 |
Prose and Poetry | 5 |
Copyright | |
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