Past-Praiser
Frank Kermode
- Dear Shadows: Portraits from Memory by John Wain
Murray, 186 pp, £10.95, April 1986, ISBN 0 7195 4284 7 - The Oxford Library of English Poetry edited by John Wain
Oxford, 1430 pp, £27.50, April 1986, ISBN 0 19 212246 0
In the poem which provides John Wain with the title of this book Yeats is addressing the dead Gore-Booth sisters and telling them, quite tenderly at first, that now they’re dead they know it all –
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Vol. 8 No. 10 · 5 June 1986 » Frank Kermode » Past-Praiser
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