Love without sex is still the most efficient form of hell known to man.
Peter Porter
Is intended both as a student text and as a revision of traditional scholarship. If it is to be used in the first way, then the often narrow thread of text above a sediment of footnotes, something Dr Leavis so deplored, can prove debilitating. Poems, especially the classics of our language, should be read headlong. Dubieties may be looked up later.
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Auden is an accomplished rhymer and Shakespeare is not.
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Shakespeare's ambiguous lubricity in is less disturbing than the bleakly moral emphasis of, where virtue is so low-spirited, its exclamation so lachrymose and its justification the nasty realpolitik of Roman Republicanism. The sun has not dried the dew on the grass in, but the ill-lit world of Livy's Rome darkens. The first poem lives out of doors; the second is in a permanent chiaroscuro.
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As to whether the people who were supposedly to put up the money and did put it up or whether it was Arthur's own money is something which I shall never know.
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I started off in England and very few people knew I was Australian. I mean, the clues were in the poems, but they didn't read them very carefully, and so for years and years I was considered completely part of the English poetry scene.
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I wanted to take a stand against what I think was not so well established then but is thoroughly well established now, which is the substitution for a real sense of a country of a hideous distortion which you can sell to the people called 'heritage'.
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You can never tell when an artist really will take up someone's work and work with it happily.
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