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A Brightness to Cast Shadows

David Constantine

出版	Bloodaxe Books, 1980
主題	Poetry / GeneralPoetry / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
ISBN	09064271509780906427156
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=rySgNQAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

In A Brightness to Cast Shadows, his first collection of poems, David Constantine creates a world of heightened contrasts: celebrating personal love; reaching into social misery; exploring the beauty and harshness of nature. His poems are often conceived in groups or cycles, and particular landscapes are evoked: West Cornwall, North Wales, the Pennines. The collection includes his poem sequence 'In Memoriam 8571 Private J.W. Gleave', a deeply moving account of his grandmother's lifelong incomprehension of her husband's death in the trenches. David Constantine's poetry is direct and uncomplicated, combining classical precision and a tender lyricism; he writes, as we should read, with the kind of sensitivity Randall Jarrell characterised as 'a mixture of sharp intelligence and of willing emotional empathy, at once penetrating and generous'.