The Literary Essays of John Heath-StubbsCarcanet, 1998 - Počet stran: 214 To mark John Heath-Stubbs's eightieth birthday, Carcanet publishes his major essays. The earliest was written in 1945, the most recent half a century later. There is a notable continuity of concern throughout the book: here is a poet undistracted by fashion from his vocation, which is to read deeply and to understand the different terms on which every writer wrestles poems from a language. He considers English poets from Spenser to the present day, as well as the Italians Tasso and Leopardi. In engaging a writer he employs his unique understanding of poetic process. He has a clear sense of the challenges and rewards of sustained long poems - epic, allegory or satire - and an ear for rhythmic and semantic nuance. Fascination with specific detail never distracts him from a sense of the larger project of the poem itself. |
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... verse , and the other a typical piece of Restoration prose comedy . It is perhaps idle to look for any unity in it , but part of the theme of the verse plot is the contrast between pastoral innocence and the sophistication of courts ...
... verse , and the other a typical piece of Restoration prose comedy . It is perhaps idle to look for any unity in it , but part of the theme of the verse plot is the contrast between pastoral innocence and the sophistication of courts ...
Strana 119
... verse passages , and the use of literary quotation and allusion , quotations from Greek writers in the original ... verse , as does Varronian satire , but it does alternate free blank verse and regular rhymed verse in much the same way ...
... verse passages , and the use of literary quotation and allusion , quotations from Greek writers in the original ... verse , as does Varronian satire , but it does alternate free blank verse and regular rhymed verse in much the same way ...
Strana 169
... verse , I presently sat at the feet of Hardy and Thomas and Frost . Failing in love altered that , now Someone , at least , was important : Yeats was a help , so was Graves . Then , without warning , the whole Economy suddenly crumbled ...
... verse , I presently sat at the feet of Hardy and Thomas and Frost . Failing in love altered that , now Someone , at least , was important : Yeats was a help , so was Graves . Then , without warning , the whole Economy suddenly crumbled ...
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A.T. Tolley Aeneid Anathemata Anne Killigrew Anne Ridler Armida Auden Augustan beauty C.S. Lewis characters Charles Williams Christian City civilisation classical contemporary Crabbe's criticism culture Dante Dante's Darkling Plain death Dryden early eclogue eighteenth century Elegy England English epic essay Ezra Pound fact figure Four Quartets Gebir Gray Gray's Hart Crane heroic historical Homer human ideal imagery imagination intellectual John Heath-Stubbs King Landor later Leopardi literary literature living Logres London Milton modern moral nature novel Oxford passage passion perhaps Pindaric play Poe's poem poet poetic poetry Pope Pope's Pound prose Queen reader religious Renaissance represented Romantic Romantic Love Romanticism satire seems sense Shelley Shephearde's Calender Sidney Keyes soul Spenser spirit stanza story suggest Swift symbol T.S. Eliot Taliessin Tasso Tennyson theme tradition tragedy universe verse Virgil W.B. Yeats Waste Land Williams's Wordsworth writing Yeats