The Rattle Bag: An Anthology of Poetry: 1

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Another fine collection of poems I have been slowly working my way through these past few years, The Rattle Bag is the perfect collection for anyone hoping to get back into reading poetry. But I've also learned that I have underestimated Thomas Hardy, Edward Thomas, Robert Frost, and John Clare, and that The Prelude might actually be something I have to tackle one day.

The rattle bag : an anthology of poetry : Heaney, Seamus The rattle bag : an anthology of poetry : Heaney, Seamus

May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains. AD started its life as a network show, so it’s got nothing more objectionable than some very light innuendo at the beginning (between Michael and Maeby) and one instance of ‘S-O-B’. At that point, says Eliot, "the element of enjoyment is enlarged into appreciation, which brings a more intellectual addition to the intensity of feeling.

I don't think I would have ever been exposed to the "Hunter Poems of the Yoruba" but for this anthology, and I suspect Heaney threw in the strong presence of anonymous early traditional verse while Hughes ensured there would be a heavy dose of D.

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it felt abit like they chose poems considered 'classics', with a purpose, rather than a more interesting and wide ranging selection. Heaney and Hughes have brought together an inspired and diverse selection, ranging from undisputed masterpieces to rare discoveries, as well as drawing upon works in translation and traditional poems from oral cultures. Death of a Naturalist, his first collection of poems, appeared in 1966, and was followed by poetry, criticism and translations which established him as the leading poet of his generation.Both a strength and a weakness of this book is its lack of scholarly apparatus (bar a glossary) and absence of notes, which forces the reader's attention onto content rather than context, but makes follow-up reading difficult: it took me a lot of digging elsewhere to discover that the Jonson poem given here as "It is not growing like a tree" is in fact an extract from a much longer piece. The result is great, a mix of the well known and classic, and the quirky, obscure, but lovely, or funny.

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It can become the eye of a verbal needle through which the growing person can pass again and again until it is known by heart, and becomes a path between heart and mind, a path by which the individual can enter, repeatedly, into the kingdom of rightness. In this second episode of the series, Michael tries to convince his family members to seek gainful employment. And for that reason much familiar canonical work was not included, since we took it for granted that our putative audience would also have had a chance to know it already.Christopher Reid, then our editor at Faber, made wonderful suggestions about the internal grouping of the material. As the millennium approached, it was as if we wanted to do something definitive and affirmative, to express in our work as anthologists a determination expressed by Andrew Marvell in the poem "To his Coy Mistress": - a determination to "roll all our strength, and all / Our sweetness, up into one ball . Immediately following this we printed Matthew Arnold's "Dover Beach", a work from the other end of the age of religion, when all the poet can hear is the melancholy, long, withdrawing roar of the sea of faith that Adze-head and his brothers had once furled around earth's shores like a bright garment. Its epigraph might have been another phrase of Robert Frost's - "the playthings in the playhouse" - or another memorable declaration of Yeats's to the effect that you can disprove Hegel but not the Song of Sixpence.