‘Still Falls the Rain’ by Edith Sitwell
Dark as the world of man, black as our loss-
Voices from the Grave # 9: Edith Sitwell Reading ‘Still Falls the Rain’
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A Year in Books/Day 61: English Romantic Poetry
- Title: English Romantic Poetry An Anthology
- Editor: Stanley Appelbaum
- Year Published: 1996 (Dover Thrift Editions)
- Year Purchased: 1999/2000
- Source: A gift from a friend.
- About: When you hear the term “English Romantic Poets”, who initially comes to mind? If you say anyone other than William Blake, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley or John Keats….then you are lying. This anthology contains scores of poems by the aforementioned wordsmiths.
- Motivation: My friend was cleaning out her shelves and I emerged precisely a dozen volumes richer. While this period of poetry is not my favourite, I do have a soft spot for Coleridge and find much to admire of everyone on the list.
- Times Read: A few
- Random Excerpt/Page x: “For many, Shelley remains the perfect Romantic: for his quest after truth and justice, for his unparalleled learning (Greco-Roman and otherwise) and breadth of scope (poems on love, politics, history and philosophy), for the dazzling variety and novelty of his meters and stanzas, for the exquisiteness of his diction and delicacy of his thought.”
- Happiness Scale: 7
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“Poets are damned but they are not blind, they see with the eyes of the angels.”-William Carlos Williams
Voices from the Grave # 8: William Carlos Williams Reading ‘To Elsie’
‘To Elsie’ by William Carlos Williams
The pure products of America
go crazy-
Voices from the Grave # 7: Robert Penn Warren Reading ‘Love Recognized’
‘Love Recognized’ by Robert Penn Warren
There are many things in the world and you
Are one of them.
Voices from the Grave #6: W.H. Auden Reading ‘In Memory of W.B. Yeats’
‘In Memory of W.B. Yeats’ by W.H. Auden
He disappeared in the dead of winter
Voices from the Grave #5: Edna St. Vincent Millay Reading ‘Love is Not All’
‘Love is Not All’ by Edna St. Vincent Millay.
Love it not all: it is not meat nor drink
Voices from the Grave #4: Ted Hughes Reading ‘The Thought-Fox’
‘The Thought-Fox’ from ‘Hawk in the Rain’ (1957).
I imagine this midnight moment’s forest:
Voices from the Grave #3: Anne Sexton Reading ‘The Truth the Dead Know’
‘The Truth the Dead Know’ from ‘All My Pretty Ones’ (1962).
Men kill for this, or for as much.
Voices from the Grave #2: Robert Lowell Reading ‘Epilogue’
‘Epilogue’ from ‘Day by Day’ (1977).
Yet why not say what happened?
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