Minotaur: Poetry and the Nation StateHarvard University Press, 1992 - 298 sider One of the most powerful poets of his generation consolidates his reputation as an exceptionally forthright and astringent critic in this book that analyzes the relationship between English-language literature, especially poetry, and nineteenth and twentieth-century politics. Tom Paulin's criticism stays on track, always responsive to a work's characteristic genius and sensitive to its social setting. Each of these essays--on poets ranging from Robert Southey and Christina Rossetti to Philip Larkin, from John Clare to Elizabeth Bishop and Ted Hughes, with a few excursions into the poetry of Eastern Europe for contrast--is informed by a love for poetry and a lively attention to detail. At every turn, Paulin demonstrates the intricate connection between the private imagination and society at large, simultaneously illuminating the kinship between the literature of the past and of the present. He also relates the poetry to themes of nationhood and to ideas about orality, speech rhythms, and vernacular background. Minotaur exemplifies the sort of general, accessible criticism of the arts that will interest a wide range of readers. |
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... ) and to the quietistic meekness of ' The loveliness that knows noblesse oblige ' . There would appear to be an irreconcilable argument in Lawrence's imagination between what in ' Democracy ' he terms ' the singleness 165 D. H. LAWRENCE.
... that he must surrender his personality to the socialists : What rot , to see the cabbage and hibiscus - tree As equals ! What rot , to say the louts along the Corso In Sunday suits and yellow shoes Are my equals ! 167 D. H. LAWRENCE.
... Lawrence concludes : But yet If they pull all the world down , The process will amount to the same in the end . Instead of flame and flame - clean ash , Slow waters rotting back to level muck And ... Lawrence's culture 169 D. H. LAWRENCE.
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John Clare in Babylon | 47 |
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