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This book proceeds mainly by way of practical criticism, and depends  entirely upon the poems discussed being heard. I should like to make an urgent plea to every reader to heed the words of Yeats on this topic: If they are to read poetry at all, if they are to enjoy beautiful  rhythm, if they are to get from poetry anything but what it has in  common with prose, they must hear it spoken by men who have music in their voices and a learned understanding of its sound.  There is no poem so great that a fine speaker cannot make it greater or that a bad ear cannot make it nothing. Every poem, every song or symphony has its autonomy - but, in the realm of art, the works of major creators set up resonances and echoes among themselves. In this manner, we come to recognise a distinctive 'world' of Beethoven, Mahler, Yeats (a long, but finite roll-call). And for those whose depths are stirred by such artists, especially through the course of a lifetime, no basic defence of their power and authenticity has to be made. In this book, I shall be considering works of three outstanding  modern poets, pioneers of human consciousness in the medium of words. All are different, all are religious; all

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Author

A. E. Dyson

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan

Published

1981

Language

EN

ISBN

9781349012961

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Humanities