The Art of Restraint: English Poetry from Hardy to LarkinRichard Hoffpauir argues that the works of the best poets have found ways of not capitulating to contemporary reality and outlines the terms of the debate by setting the weaknesses of Yeats against the strenghts of Hardy. Subsequent chapters discuss the nature poetry of Edward thomas; the war poetry of Graves, Blunden, and Gurney; the love poetry of Bridges, Lawrence, and Graves; and the political and social verse of Rickword, Daryush, Betjeman, and Larkin. |
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... kind of pointed social criticism and moral penetration of a true realist like George Crabbe . The sympathy is never more complex than this from Davies's encounter with a London madman : Was it a man that had Suffered till he went mad ...
... kind of pointed social criticism and moral penetration of a true realist like George Crabbe . The sympathy is never more complex than this from Davies's encounter with a London madman : Was it a man that had Suffered till he went mad ...
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... kind of patriotism : though I am ready if necessary to die for England , I do not see the necessity ; it being only a hard and fast system which has sent so much of the flower of Englands [ sic ] artists to risk death , and a wrong ...
... kind of patriotism : though I am ready if necessary to die for England , I do not see the necessity ; it being only a hard and fast system which has sent so much of the flower of Englands [ sic ] artists to risk death , and a wrong ...
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... kind of person who is always somewhere else when the trigger is pulled . So much of left - wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot . " 23 Perhaps it is not so much " amoralism " that ...
... kind of person who is always somewhere else when the trigger is pulled . So much of left - wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot . " 23 Perhaps it is not so much " amoralism " that ...
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