tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2499661274163551793.post5399280774403340995..comments2024-01-02T15:12:14.699+00:00Comments on War Poetry: Ivor Gurney, Isaac Rosenberg, Wilfred OwenTim Kendallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17917270014209480898noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2499661274163551793.post-30934526411019540232012-01-09T08:03:27.915+00:002012-01-09T08:03:27.915+00:00You may be right to say 'Gurney is unprecedent...You may be right to say 'Gurney is unprecedented in his ability to juxtapose genius and incompetence', but Owen rivals him.Roger Allenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11012987757094423896noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2499661274163551793.post-78625519528457419242012-01-08T08:20:27.798+00:002012-01-08T08:20:27.798+00:00It's safe to say that you and I disagree about...It's safe to say that you and I disagree about Owen.Tim Kendallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17917270014209480898noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2499661274163551793.post-81342308453483766572012-01-07T01:02:56.239+00:002012-01-07T01:02:56.239+00:00'Good though they are, Rickword only wrote 6 o...'Good though they are, Rickword only wrote 6 or 7 war poems'<br />More good poems than Owen managed, surely!<br /><br />As for Graves, early Graves's worst critic was later Graves.Roger Allenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11012987757094423896noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2499661274163551793.post-37028020253618827042012-01-05T20:17:48.747+00:002012-01-05T20:17:48.747+00:00That stanza from Gurney's 'Half Dead' ...That stanza from Gurney's 'Half Dead' brings back strong memories of the dreaded "GI" on Ex. that felled 1000 soldiers and 1 poet... 'the cold bringing me sane' is perfect. When one is so sick all one wants is oblivion, but the cold simply will not allow anything less than clear-headed suffering. <br /><br />I love your comment Tim, 'Gurney is unprecedented in his ability to juxtapose genius and incompetence'.smsteelehttp://www.warpoet.canoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2499661274163551793.post-50824979217623591162012-01-04T08:58:24.265+00:002012-01-04T08:58:24.265+00:00Yes, I'm sure! Good though they are, Rickword ...Yes, I'm sure! Good though they are, Rickword only wrote 6 or 7 war poems; I don't rate Read at all; Graves later tried to suppress much of his own war poetry because he thought that it was sub-standard. Blunden is well worth pausing over; and West, Brooke, Grenfell and Shaw Stewart wrote a very small number of perfect poems.Tim Kendallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17917270014209480898noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2499661274163551793.post-44597797470992897112012-01-03T20:24:35.156+00:002012-01-03T20:24:35.156+00:00"I would add Sassoon and Jones and be confide..."I would add Sassoon and Jones and be confident that---Sorley having died so soon and Thomas having written almost nothing in France---all the best English soldier-poets were included"<br /><br />Are you sure?<br />Rickword?<br />Read?<br />Graves?Roger Allenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11012987757094423896noreply@blogger.com