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Oxford University Press USA - OSO, Oxford
A selection of the prose writings of the poet and novelist Cecil Day-Lewis (1904-72), poet laureate and Oxford professor of poetry, who published more than twenty volumes of poetry in his lifetime. Cover -- C. DAY-LEWIS The GOLDEN BRIDLE: SELECTED...
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A selection of the prose writings of the poet and novelist Cecil Day-Lewis (1904-72), poet laureate and Oxford professor of poetry, who published more than twenty volumes of poetry in his lifetime. Cover -- C. DAY-LEWIS The GOLDEN BRIDLE: SELECTED PROSE -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Editorial Note -- Introduction -- PART I: Poetry, Politics, and Society -- 'Preface' to Oxford Poetry 1927 (with W. H. Auden) -- A Hope for Poetry (1934) -- Chapter VI -- Chapter VIII -- 'Revolutionaries and Poetry' (1935) -- from 'The Poet's Task' (1951) -- PART II: Poetry and Poetics -- The Poetic Image (1947) -- from Chapter I 'The Nature of the Image' -- from Chapter VI 'The Eternal Spirit's Eternal Pastime' -- 'The Colloquial Element in English Poetry' (1947) -- 'The Poet's Way of Knowledge' (1956) -- The Lyric Impulse (1965) -- Chapter 1 'The Lyric Impulse' -- from Chapter 6 'The Golden Bridle' -- PART III: Poets -- 'Gerard Manley Hopkins', from A Hope for Poetry (1934) -- Chapter II -- 'Introduction' to George Meredith's Modern Love (1948) -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- V -- VI -- 'The Lyrical Poetry of Thomas Hardy' (1951) -- 'W. B. Yeats and Human Dignity' from Notable Images of Virtue (1954) -- 'Introduction' to Robert Frost's Selected Poems (1955) -- 'Introduction' to Wilfred Owen's Collected Poems (1963) -- PART IV: Autobiographical Reflections -- The Buried Day (1960) -- Chapter 1 A Smell of Bacon -- Chapter 10 The Thirties: Musbury -- Postscript -- from 'Making a Poem' (c.1964) -- 'The Golden Bridle', Chapter 6 from The Lyric Impulse (1965) -- from 'On Translating Poetry' (1969) -- 'Foreword' to Selected Poems (1967) -- Index.
