Gerard Manley Hopkins - Poems and ProseGottfried Benn - Poems and Prose
Benn's essays make him out to be just an appalling individual: the man who keeps quiet and goes about his work, disregarding what is going on outside in the way he waves away at Nazism (not quite working outright with the regime but just keeping his head down the whole time), and finding the eugenicism more than a bit ok. Writes away after all is said and done as if nothing has happened, collecting prizes and acclaim.
Then I turned to his poems and they are often great. The usual riddle.
The Hopkins poems and journals are a marvel tho'. Nature and god find an intensity in a set of poems that were written by this...jesuit priest? No bohemians around. The Geoffrey Hill lecture on the one poem (Monumentality and bidding) is a good companion to read this with.
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 26 April 2020 14:40 (three years ago) link
we have Spring 2020 'What Are You Reading?' thread now. we're right up with times:
"And sport no more seen / On the darkening green" -- What are you reading SPRING 2020?
― A is for (Aimless), Sunday, 26 April 2020 16:56 (three years ago) link
Ah thanks didn't read the title
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 26 April 2020 19:45 (three years ago) link
lock thread...
― koogs, Sunday, 26 April 2020 20:10 (three years ago) link