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Bezig met laden... The Oxford Book of Modern Verse 1892-1935door W. B. Yeats (Redacteur)
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)821.910822Literature English English poetry 1900- 1900-1999 Collections of literary textsLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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The poems selected are on the whole an excellent representation of the era: There is particular joy and resonance still to be found in the voyage through Wilde's evocative verses as there is with Hardy, Chesterton, Eliot, and the inimitable C.E. Lewis.
E.g. 'Can the mole take,
A census of the stars...
So, I, perhaps,
Am neither mole nor mantis;
I see the constellations,
But by their gaps.'
Although for myself the singular poem which takes me by the hand and heart is from the mind of Oliver St. John Gogarty: Non Dolet
Our friends go with us as we go
Down the long path where Beauty wends,
Where all we love foregathers, so
Why should we fear to join our friends?
Who would survive them to outlast
His children; to outwear his fame---
Left when the Triumph has gone past---
To win from Age, not Time, a name?
Then do not shudder at the knife
That Death's indifferent hand drives home,
But with the Strivers leave the Strife,
Nor, after Caesar, skulk in Rome. ( )