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Donald Edward Kidd
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Gerald G. Morrison
Gordon J.L. Ramel
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Hirsch L. Silverman
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Jim Spence
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Robert M. Wilson
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Vicki L. Walker
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W. S. Mayo
Wesley Storer
William August Kobs
William Robbins
William & Tracie Stage
Wojciech Plocharski
Yvonne Sparkes
Zora Masiarova
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Symphonies
Edited
By:
Dr. Santosh Kumar
Binding: Paperback
(pp: 280)
ISBN: 81-901366-3-1
Availability: In
Stock (Ships within 1 to 2 days) Publisher: Cyberwit.net, India
Pub. Date: 2003 Condition: New
 Description: The
poems included in Symphonies will surely deepen
and purify our normal existence. In several poets,
we notice a decided opposition between the artist
and society. Symphonies shows that the poets have
a greater knowledge of life and a more
comprehensive soul than a common person. Besides,
by a deft use of their power of imagination, the
poets are able to unravel the mystery of life, and
to reveal uncommonness in the ordinary things of
life. The imagery in the poems is clear and
delicate. Several poems in Symphonies exalt and
widen the spiritual vision, and the aim of such
poets seems "to console the afflicted, to add
sunshine to daylight by making the happy happier,
to teach the young and the gracious of every age
to see, to think and feel, and therefore to become
more actively and securely virtuous." On the
contrary, some of the poets in Symphonies
concentrate on the ugliness, pain and violent
terrorism in the new millennium. You can see the
poet's "hurts were spinal." The
Symphonies poets are at their best as literary
artist. Many poets in Symphonies seem to follow
the advice of T. E. Hulme (1888-1917):
"Poetry should restrict itself to the world
perceived by the senses, and to the presentation
of its themes in a succession of concise, clearly
visualized, concrete images accurate in detail and
precise in significance." The conscious and
deliberate pursuit of hard and dry images and 'vers
libre' at times results in obscurity, and this has
been avoided by the selected poets of Symphonies.
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The
poets selected for Symphonies
reveal vigor
of their imaginative power, which enables them to
create things quite new, a magnificent world of
beauty and ideas for the enlightenment and delight
of the readers. According to Aristotle, poetry is
an art of imitation. No doubt, it is an art of
imitation, but it does have a noble mission.
Poetry alone inspires us to virtue and noble
action. It is superior to the "dry
bones" of history and abstract precepts of
philosophy. "Poetry doth not only show the
way, but gives so sweet a prospect into the way as
will entice any man to enter into it"(Sir
Philip Sidney, An Apology For Poetry).
Further,
it should be pointed out that literature is always
influenced by the impact of war and social changes.
In the Anglo-Saxon poetry (450-1050), we notice
the romantic attitude towards war and the
glorification of warriors; on the other hand, the
Soldier Poets in England (1914-18) like Wilfred
Owen, Sassoon, Herbert Read, Rossenberg and
Herbert Read revealed the naked brutality and
barbarism of the actual fighting in the trenches. Symphonies too features poems describing spiritual
exhaustion, a "destructive urge", and a
new kind of aesthetic experience. In poetry these
poets found an answer to an unfortunate crisis
caused by the violent and turbulent world, a
helpless witness to the September 11 terrorist
attack, the Gulf and Iraq war.
Horace
(65 B.C. - 8 B.C.) aptly commented:" Let your theme
be what it may, provided it be simple and uniform;
choose a theme suited to your powers, ye authors."
The theme of the poems selected for Symphonies reveals the impact of Two World Wars, Iraq war, and the
Pound-Eliot tradition. Several poets pursue joy,
eschewing sadness and penetrating below life's surfaces.
Several poets in Symphonies remind us of English
Metaphysical poetry and French symbolists. They are also
influenced by the highly rich American poetry of the
20th century,
including poets like Olson, Duncan, Creeley; 'San
Fransisco Renaissance' poets Jack Spicer, Ferlinghetti,
Lew Welch; 'Beat' poets Ginsberg, Gregory Corso; 'New
York Poets' Frank O' Hara, Barbara Guest. O'Hara took an
intense, but limited view when he remarked that only
Whitman, Crane and Williams, of the American poets, are
better than the movies.
Here
is visible a rich gallery of poets characterized by
majesty, extraordinary witchery of music, the vivid
pictorial quality of imagination, and heart-appealing
harmonies of verse. The poets never display artistic
monotony, and they are marked by true intensity of
sincere feeling and music of words. Several poets
included in Symphonies enact "inner reality
which results in self-realization or
self-recognition."
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