"Considering the wealth of poetic drama that has……" — James Fenton
"Considering the wealth of poetic drama that has come down to us from the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods, it is surprising that so little of any value has been added since."
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James Fenton
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52 Quotes by James Fenton
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Those who actually set out to see the fall of a city or those who choose to go to a…
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What happened to poetry in the twentieth century was that it began to be written for the page.
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A cabaret song has got to be written - for the middle voice, ideally - because you've got to hear…
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Saigon was an addicted city, and we were the drug: the corruption of children, the mutilation of young men, the…
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Babies are not brought by storks and poets are not produced by workshops.
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Free verse seemed democratic because it offered freedom of access to writers. And those who disdained free verse would always…
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For poets today or in any age, the choice is not between freedom on the one hand and abstruse French…
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A really interesting and happy time was when I first went to Florence as a student and studied Italian. I…
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At four lines, with the quatrain, we reach the basic stanza form familiar from a whole range of English poetic…
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Composers need words, but they do not necessarily need poetry. The Russian composer, Aleksandr Mossolov, who chose texts from newspaper…
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The lullaby is the spell whereby the mother attempts to transform herself back from an ogre to a saint.
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English poetry begins whenever we decide to say the modern English language begins, and it extends as far as we…
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