W.S. Graham : speaking towards you
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W.S. Graham : speaking towards you
（Liverpool English texts and studies / general editor, Philip Edwards, 43）
Liverpool University Press, 2004
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-196) and indexes
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Description
Graham's work was published by T. S. Eliot in the 1940s and 50s, but as a major post-war poet, his work has received astonishingly little critical attention given its prestige and influence. This collection of essays covers all aspects of Graham's work - its critical reception, recent influence and its relations with other developments in the arts, in particular the work of the St Ives School of visual artists. It includes some biographical material (brief reminiscences by and interviews with those who knew him) and discussions of the material contained in several collections of manuscripts. Nothing so far published has paid attention to these manuscript collections or to the large number of uncollected poems published since his death. Neither has enough been written about Graham's importance to poets of the 1980s and 1990s.
'I first read a W. S. Graham poem in 1949. It sent a shiver down my spine. Forty-five years later nothing has changed. His song is unique and his work an inspiration.'
Harold Pinter
Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
1. Introduction: Contacting Graham - Ralph Pite and Hester Jones
Listen. Put on Morning
2. 'Listen': W. S. Graham - Ian Sansom
From The White Threshold
3. Graham and the 1940s - Tony Lopez
From The Nightfishing
4. 'Roaring between the lines': W. S. Graham and the White Threshold of Line-Breaks - Adam Piette
Fromm The Dark Dialogues
5. Abstract, Real and Particular: Graham and Painting - Ralph Pite
From Implements in their Places
6. Syntax Gram and the Magic Typewriter: W. S. Graham's Automatic Writing - Matthew Francis
From To My Wife at Midnight
7. Dependence in the Poetry of W. S. Graham - Peter Robinson
From Dear Bryan Wynter
8. Achieve Further through Elegy - Fiona Green
Letter X - My Dear So Many Times
9. Graham and the Numinous: The 'Centre Aloneness' and the 'Unhailed Water' - Hester Jones
From Johann Joachim Quantz's Five Lessons
10. The Poetry of W. S. Graham - Edwin Morgan
Further Reading
General Index
Index of Graham's Works
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