british poetry in the age of modernism

‘Whate’er my choice / Vain it must be, I knew’, says ‘Melancholy’, ‘yet naught did my despair / But sweeten the strange sweetnes ...

In this portrait and the comments that precede it, Thomas anticipates Raymond Williams’s famous criticism of Georgian ruralism a ...

this is often taken for Thomas’s own rueful confession of his Balham roots, yet ‘superfluous’ reappears in 1913 inThe Happy-Go-L ...

And her brother who hides apart in a thicket, Slowly and surely playing On a whistle an olden nursery melody, Says far more than ...

strangeness of the words as well as things... I was arrested by the quaintness of Izaak Walton’s spelling’ but when he discusses ...

Orientalism. The symbolist critic Arthur Symons could write in ‘In Praise of Gypsies’ that ‘The Gypsies are nearer to the animal ...

Afo ́rtnight before Chrı ́stmas Gypsies were e ́verywhere: But no great damage is done to naturalness by reinstating the two los ...

lines reflects an encounter with someone that cannot be weighed up in terms of duties and obligations. It is an operation of ‘gr ...

This weather, marching after the enemy.’ ‘And so I hope. Good luck.’ And there I nodded ‘Good-night. You keep straight on.’ Stif ...

Thomas is not being entirely fair here, for Frost’s poem is more than a little complex about choice, and certainly not the hymn ...

It is liberty to ‘dream what we could do if we were free’ (l. 10 ), but those dreams would be about using the hours spent dreami ...

It is impossible to separate out road and wayfarer as it is day or night- time, perceiver and perceived, interior and exterior: ...

among things, and no man knows how they came together in just that order when a beautiful thing is made like “full fathom five”. ...

Now if He had stayed here we should have moved the tree.’ ‘And I should not have sat here. Everything Would have been different. ...

the First World War’s most fateful command in the clods that ‘crumble andtoppleover’. It would be possible to allegorise further ...

which is equally a dependent condition. The poem’s formal point is to make them divergent and inseparable, for simply opposing e ...

of ecstasy, an ecstasy which makes the self’s becoming ‘as nothing’ part of its self-discovery. But Nancy argues that ecstasy oc ...

chapter 3 Walter de la Mare’s ideal reader About six months before Eliot published ‘Tradition and the Individual Talent’, Walter ...

Yet if the first part of this paragraph sounds like New Criticismavant la lettre, the second half has a characteristically de la ...

complete self-sacrifice from its maker. And its renowned masterpieces are apt to leave the British Philistine a good deal perple ...