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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Page 210
... rhetoric , and expect from the poem a wide range of fantasies , irrelevant to its central statement . Personally , I expect poems to say what they mean in the simplest and most economical way ; even if the thought they contain is ...
... rhetoric , and expect from the poem a wide range of fantasies , irrelevant to its central statement . Personally , I expect poems to say what they mean in the simplest and most economical way ; even if the thought they contain is ...
Page 211
... Rhetoric may be the boast of the theatre as Christopher Fry's admirers claim - but it is the curse of poetry . This must be emphasized , especially here at Cambridge where rhetoric was at one time the principal subject of study ; after ...
... Rhetoric may be the boast of the theatre as Christopher Fry's admirers claim - but it is the curse of poetry . This must be emphasized , especially here at Cambridge where rhetoric was at one time the principal subject of study ; after ...
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... rhetorical studies under the best available professor : Syron the Epicurean . If Virgil's Greek was rather poor , as his occasional misrenderings of Homer prove , this must be pardoned him : a ... rhetoric and poetry had been The Anti-Poet.
... rhetorical studies under the best available professor : Syron the Epicurean . If Virgil's Greek was rather poor , as his occasional misrenderings of Homer prove , this must be pardoned him : a ... rhetoric and poetry had been The Anti-Poet.
Contents
Observations on Poetry 19221925 | 1 |
The Poetic Trance | 3 |
Prose and Poetry | 5 |
Copyright | |
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