/lit/ - Literature

>>24010687
didn't auden say 'writing poems isn't something that you decide to do. it decides itself'?

i'll give robert graves the final word

>>23977422
because poetry requires a rhythmic hypnotism over the reader into a receptive state. poetry is composed at the back of the mind: an unaccountable product of a trance in which the emotions of love, fear, anger, or grief are profoundly engaged.

>>23407440
No, you keep it sacred - on why modern writers aren't any good he said 'they now take [their issue] along to the National Health psychiatrist, pleading to be de-thinged'.
You try your hardest to be you. After all, nobody can possibly succeed in being you so well as yourself, and gradually you in that favourable position of being in your position can find out far better than anyone else what being you entails

>>23318008

freudian/jungian infiltration into literary criticism has been disastrous.

any slight mania or differentiating oddness you should guard as jealously as the savage guards the stone or tree that houses his soul, writers now take along to a psychiatrist to get de-thinged.

freudian/jungian infiltration into literary criticism has been disastrous

>>13050900
the effect on readers of poetry, with its opposite poles of ecstasy and melancholia, is "what the french call a 'frisson', and the scots call a 'grue'" - meaning the shudder provoked by fearful or supernatural experiences. beyond historic interest, what does your description of art make but a dead bore to all but specialists?