Agenda / Yeats

20 USD

Date

1972

Category

Poetry

Description

Agenda; Vol. 9 No. 4 - Vol. 10 No. 1 (2 issues) Autumn-Winter 1971/2. Edited by William Cookson. Agenda is a poetry journal founded by Ezra Pound and William Cookson in 1959. This issue includes essays on W. B. Yeats by Cal Clothier, Kenneth Cox, Peter Dale, Geoffry Hill, C. H. Sisson and Jon Stallworthy, and 27 Poems by Eugenio Montale, amongst many others. Published by Agenda, London, 1971, first edition. Printed by Poets' and Painters' Press, London.

Excerpt

But a great poet cannot exist without being in some way humanly great, and this quality of moral intelligence is what grows in the rereading of his poems; this quality is a complicated density of moral, intellectual, and physical passion. We are speaking of what is expressed and implicit not quite as music, but as language. So much by way prelude..."Clowns got up as poets, arrogant bureaucrats, pedantic criers, you are the standard-bearers: carrying faded colors. Being a poet isn’t a matter of pride. It’s only an error of nature. A burden to be shouldered with fear."