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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... Thou forgive that sin by which I have won Others to sin and made my sin their door ? Wilt Thou forgive that sin which I did shun A year or two : but wallowed in , a score ? When Thou hast done , Thou hast not done , For I have more . I ...
... Thou forgive that sin by which I have won Others to sin and made my sin their door ? Wilt Thou forgive that sin which I did shun A year or two : but wallowed in , a score ? When Thou hast done , Thou hast not done , For I have more . I ...
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... thou from hence away art past , - Every nighte and alle , To Whinny - muir thou com'st at last ; - And Christe receive thy saule . If ever thou gavest hosen and shoon , - Every nighte and alle , Sit thee down and put them on ; And ...
... thou from hence away art past , - Every nighte and alle , To Whinny - muir thou com'st at last ; - And Christe receive thy saule . If ever thou gavest hosen and shoon , - Every nighte and alle , Sit thee down and put them on ; And ...
Page 405
... thou ne'er gav'st nane - Every nighte and alle , The fire sall burn thee to the bare bane ; And Christe receive thy ... thou ne'er gav'st nane , / The whinnes sall prick thee to the bare bane ... .. ' The last ordeal was Purgatory Fire ...
... thou ne'er gav'st nane - Every nighte and alle , The fire sall burn thee to the bare bane ; And Christe receive thy ... thou ne'er gav'st nane , / The whinnes sall prick thee to the bare bane ... .. ' The last ordeal was Purgatory Fire ...
Contents
Observations on Poetry 19221925 | 1 |
The Poetic Trance | 3 |
Prose and Poetry | 5 |
Copyright | |
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