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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... live on skin so sleek ... But the double alliteration - love , live ; skin , sleek - was excessive ; so he decided to retain the dimples and let the tinsy whimsical little Smiles keep house in them . He wrote : And love to live in ...
... live on skin so sleek ... But the double alliteration - love , live ; skin , sleek - was excessive ; so he decided to retain the dimples and let the tinsy whimsical little Smiles keep house in them . He wrote : And love to live in ...
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... live with her , and live with thee In unrestrained pleasures free ... He then thought of his Puritanical father , who was allowing him to stay at home and write poems in their cottage at Horton , rather than enter the family scrivener's ...
... live with her , and live with thee In unrestrained pleasures free ... He then thought of his Puritanical father , who was allowing him to stay at home and write poems in their cottage at Horton , rather than enter the family scrivener's ...
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... Live - with a Transfusion of one's own worse Life if he can't retain the Original's better . Better a live Sparrow than a stuffed Eagle . ' He based this remark on the scornful old proverb : ' Better a live dog than a dead lion ' a ...
... Live - with a Transfusion of one's own worse Life if he can't retain the Original's better . Better a live Sparrow than a stuffed Eagle . ' He based this remark on the scornful old proverb : ' Better a live dog than a dead lion ' a ...
Contents
Observations on Poetry 19221925 | 1 |
The Poetic Trance | 3 |
Prose and Poetry | 5 |
Copyright | |
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