The Literary Essays of John Heath-StubbsCarcanet, 1998 - 214 pages 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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... forces of the drama . The third force is friendship , represented by Antony's relationship to Dolabella . By a tragic twist Antony is brought to believe that Dolabella is about to betray him with Cleopatra . In repudiating her , he is ...
... forces of the drama . The third force is friendship , represented by Antony's relationship to Dolabella . By a tragic twist Antony is brought to believe that Dolabella is about to betray him with Cleopatra . In repudiating her , he is ...
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... forces of unreason which continually threaten them . It is these forces , and not really the forgotten hacks of Grub Street , who are seen marshalling behind the goddess Dullness at the end of The Dunciad : - Thy hand , great Anarch ...
... forces of unreason which continually threaten them . It is these forces , and not really the forgotten hacks of Grub Street , who are seen marshalling behind the goddess Dullness at the end of The Dunciad : - Thy hand , great Anarch ...
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... forces which Roman civilisation was compelled to suppress - above all , female romantic passion . But such is the power of these forces , that she nearly succeeds in shattering the framework of the poem , and making Aeneas forfeit the ...
... forces which Roman civilisation was compelled to suppress - above all , female romantic passion . But such is the power of these forces , that she nearly succeeds in shattering the framework of the poem , and making Aeneas forfeit the ...
Contents
A Note on the Text | 11 |
Related Reading | 11 |
Dryden and the Heroic Ideal 1969 | 15 |
Copyright | |
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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 Pindar 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 style suggest Swift symbol T.S. Eliot Taliessin Tasso Tennyson theme tradition tragedy verse Virgil W.B. Yeats Waste Land Williams's Wordsworth writing Yeats