Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Great Regulars: "Pretty", for instance--

published in the TLS in 1959--seems at first an obsessive, atmospheric reprise of the theme of Nature "red in tooth and claw", until the closing stanzas, which reveal a human raptor and an unsuspected impulse behind the poem.

[by Stevie Smith]

Pretty

from Mick Imlah: The Times Literary Supplement: Poem of the Week: Pretty

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