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Tag: Thom Gunn

176. (Robert Burns)

It’s difficult to know what to do with Robert Burns, besides read and enjoy him, and take fortification from him; … More

Christopher Ricks, Donald Davie, Eighteenth-Century Poetry, Matthew Arnold, Poetry, Robert Burns, Romanticism, Samuel Johnson, Scottish Literature, Thom Gunn, William Empson

39. (Thom Gunn)

Although I assume he has a host of them, I have not met a devoted admirer of Thom Gunn’s poetry. … More

Allen Tate, British Poetry, Dryden, Ezra Pound, Geoffrey Hill, Jonson, modern poetry, Poetry, Thom Gunn, W.B. Yeats, Yvor Winters

6. (Ben Jonson)

My first thought was: how odd for Eliot, poet-critic who railed against the dissociation of sensibility, to write: “The immediate … More

Ben Jonson, Empson, Erving Goffman, John Hollander, Painting and Poetry, Realism, T.S. Eliot, Thom Gunn, Wordsworth
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