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Readings of twentieth- century British poetry,
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This review is from: Modern Poetry (Paperback)
This work opens with a general introduction on the subject of 'practical criticism' whose great founding father is taken to be I.A. Richards. The heart of the book contains readings of individual poems by Thomas Hardy, Walter De La Mare, Edward Thomas, Wilfed Owen, W.B. Yeats, D. H. Lawrence, T.S. Eliot, Stephen Spender, Louis MacNeice,W.H.Auden, C.Day Lewis,Michael Roberts, Robert Graves, Dylan Thomas, Edwin Muir , B.S. Thomas, Philip Larkin, Ted Hughes, Thom Gunn,John Wain.
The readings invariably give new insight into the individual poems. I especially liked the reading of Dylan Thomas 'Fern Hill'my favorite poem of all those interpreted in the book. As the critical reading makes clear this is a poem of youthful exuberance, innocence and joy in life. Thomas remarkable linguistic inventiveness and musical skill are apparent from the very first lines. I cite the opening stanza just to show the sheer joy the poetry gives. "Now as I was young and easy under the apple boughs About the lilting house and happy as the grass was green, The night above the dingle starry, Time let me hail and climb Golden in the heydays of his eyes, And honoured among wagons I was prince of the apple town And once below a time I lordly had the trees and leaves Trail with daisies and barley Down the rivers of the windfall light.
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