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 94
... sound of the poem is magnificent ; only the sense is deficient . In the opening lines Brown , intro- duced for its resonance and as an alliterative partner to Berries , suggests a false contrast between myrtle leaves which go brown and ...
... sound of the poem is magnificent ; only the sense is deficient . In the opening lines Brown , intro- duced for its resonance and as an alliterative partner to Berries , suggests a false contrast between myrtle leaves which go brown and ...
Page 257
... sound ... How can readers stop , pass , or listen if they aren't there ? Very well ! Let us assume that Wordsworth is soliloquizing on both occasions . Then why does he tell himself : ' Behold her ! ' when he has already done so ? And ...
... sound ... How can readers stop , pass , or listen if they aren't there ? Very well ! Let us assume that Wordsworth is soliloquizing on both occasions . Then why does he tell himself : ' Behold her ! ' when he has already done so ? And ...
Page 435
... sound - he was a musician manqué - though , as I have observed elsewhere , when his sound and sense are in conflict , the sense always loses . Touch the warbled string , for example , is indefen- sible . In ' Gather Ye Rosebuds ' the ...
... sound - he was a musician manqué - though , as I have observed elsewhere , when his sound and sense are in conflict , the sense always loses . Touch the warbled string , for example , is indefen- sible . In ' Gather Ye Rosebuds ' the ...
Contents
Observations on Poetry 19221925 | 1 |
The Poetic Trance | 3 |
Prose and Poetry | 5 |
Copyright | |
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