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“Poets, the best of them, are a very chameleonic race.” — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Drive my dead thoughts over the universe Like wither’d leaves to quicken a new birth! And, by the incantation of this verse, Scatter, as from an unextinguish’d hearth Ashes and sparks, my words among mankind! Be through my lips to … Continue reading
Posted in Books, On This Day, writers
Tagged Camille Paglia, Dorothy Parker, England, Ernest Hemingway, Gerard Manley Hopkins, H.L. Mencken, Harold Bloom, John Keats, Lord Byron, Mary Shelley, Matthew Arnold, Michael Schmidt, Percy Bysshe Shelley, poetry, Robert Graves, T.S. Eliot, Tennessee Williams, W.B. Yeats, W.H. Auden, William Carlos Williams
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“I do not write for the public.” — poet Gerard Manley Hopkins
“I shall shortly have some sonnets to send you, five or more. Four of these came like inspirations unbidden and against my will. And in the life I lead now, which is one of a continually jaded and harassed mind, … Continue reading
“All creative art must rise out of a specific soil and flicker with the spirit of place.” — D.H. Lawrence
“Whoever reads me will be in the thick of the scrimmage, and if he doesn’t like it – if he wants a safe seat in the audience – let him read somebody else.” — D.H. Lawrence, 1925 D.H. Lawrence was … Continue reading
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Tagged Camille Paglia, D.H. Lawrence, England, H.D., Harold Bloom, Joan Didion, Michael Schmidt, poetry, Rebecca West, Robert Graves, Tennessee Williams, Thomas Hardy, W.H. Auden
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Armistice Day Anniversary
Robert Graves, who enlisted in the Royal Welch Fusiliers on the outbreak of war, was injured so badly in the Battle of the Somme he was expected to die. He saw unimaginable horrors and lived to tell the tale. His … Continue reading
Happy Birthday, John Keats
Keats was born on this day in London, 1795. “Ode to Autumn” is perhaps my favorite of his – but today, for his birthday, I will post: “Ode on Melancholy”. And below the poem are a bunch of compiled quotes … Continue reading
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Tagged John Keats, Louis MacNeice, Michael Schmidt, Percy Bysshe Shelley, poetry, Robert Burns, Robert Graves, Rudyard Kipling
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All in one letter?
T.E. Lawrence, Robert Graves, and James Joyce? All together? I’ve read it 5 times now, and I am still in love with it. It’s prosaic, basic information … but worlds are within it. The letter is dated 1922 (so think … Continue reading
No “Either-Or”
no soft “if”, no “either-or”, Can keep my obdurate male mind From loving true and flying blind. — Robert Graves “Loving True, Flying Blind”
Love’s Own Hilarious Tincture
Nightfall is no mere failure of sunlight: Wait for the green flash, for the exact instant That your sun plummets into sea; And breathe no wish — wishes are born of weakness — When green, Love’s own hilarious tincture Welcomes … Continue reading
Shelley and Keats
Shelley was a volatile creature of air and fire: he seems never to have noticed what he ate or drank, except sometimes as a matter of vegetarian principle. Keats was earthy, with a sweet tooth and a relish for spices, … Continue reading