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"The publication of mine mentioned is not a new collection of poems, but, simply, a ned edition of the collection of 1939 - the final collection: I wrote no more poems after that."

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"As to poetry, I concern myself a good deal with the historical place of poetry in the concerns of human being of their human identity - and in the present-time crisis in the sense of human beings as to what they are."

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"I am sending you a letter for publication (it being judged suitable for publication by you) on a certain condition, which I hope you will respect. The letter, here attached, was prompted by Mr. Melvin Maddocks' article on language, which is a subject of serious concern for myself."

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"Mr. Melvin Maddocks, deploring, in your issue of March 8th, under the title of The Limitations of Language, what people do to language, and do to one another with it, himself supplies illustration of that which he deplores. The title is the major example of this. His complaint is not that people are suffering from limitations inherent in language, but that they inflict abuses of it on one another."

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"THE LIMITATIONS OF LANGUAGE: In J.M.G. Le Clezio's novel The Flood, the anti-hero is a young man suffering from a unique malady. Words--the deluge of daily words--have overloaded his circuits."

Scope and Contents "...However, once Keats had declared "Beauty is Truth, Truth Beauty", seeming to affirm an indissoluble unity, it was inevitable that sooner or later there would appear a poet who, having believed in Keat's assurance, would find that it didn't square with experience, and would be honest enough to say so. Laura Riding was that poet. She let it be known, in the years after her Collected Poems of 1938, that on these grounds she had abandoned poetry as inadequate to her ambitions and her...

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"I write in correction of some mistaken features of the review published in your February 9th issue of two publications of mine of recent time. The review ('An Ambition Beyond Poetry') shows a tempering of private annoyance to a public-minded desire to be just. There is an edginess suggestive of one himself a poet, and an ambitious one. But the general trend is towards conciliatoriness."

Scope and Contents "I have been moved by Miss Ruth Padel's review, in your issue of December 26, 1975 of Robert Graves' Collected Poems 1975 to offer as ballas for the balloon-like still-higher lift that Miss Padel endeavors to give what to calling 'Graves criticism' with her particular formula of super-heated veneration, two related articles of critical principle. The first goes: for criticism, there must be knowledge of the nature of a work to a degree of intimateness with its make-up productive of reliable...

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"I have been moved by Miss Ruth Padel's review, in your issue of December 26, 1975, of Robert Graves' Collected Poems 1975, to offer as ballast for the balloon-like still-higher lift that Miss Padel endeavors to give what is called 'Graves criticism' with her particular formula of super-heated veneration, two related articles of principle."

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"As to manuscript material pertaining to me, my work, in the posession of Miss Susan Morris:"