James Fenton: Zitate auf Englisch
"God, a Poem", line 5, from Children in Exile (1983)
Quelle: An Introduction to English Poetry (2002), Ch. 5: The Iambic Pentameter (p. 28)
"The Pitt-Rivers Museum, Oxford", line 41, from The Memory of War (1982).
Quelle: An Introduction to English Poetry (2002), Ch. 22: Poetic Drama and Opera (p. 125)
Quelle: An Introduction to English Poetry (2002), Ch. 18: Syllabics (p. 99)
Quelle: An Introduction to English Poetry (2002), Ch. 21: Song (p. 115)
Quelle: An Introduction to English Poetry (2002), Ch. 3: The Training of the Poet (p. 21)
"Goodbye to All That?" (p. 72)
The Strength of Poetry: Oxford Lectures (2001)
Quelle: An Introduction to English Poetry (2002), Ch. 22: Poetic Drama and Opera (p. 125)
"Wilfred Owen's Juvenilia" (p. 26)
The Strength of Poetry: Oxford Lectures (2001)
“Poetry is not a metrical exercise.”
An Introduction to English Poetry, Viking Penguin, London 2002 ISBN 0141004398
“Windbags can be right. Aphorists can be wrong. It is a tough world.”
The Times, February 21, 1985.
Quelle: An Introduction to English Poetry (2002), Ch. 4: The Sense of Form (pp. 24-25)
The Independent on Sunday December 16, 1990.
“Poetry carries its history within it, and it is oral in its origins, its transmission was oral.”
An Introduction to English Poetry, Viking Penguin, London 2002 ISBN 0141004398
