Poems by Isaac Rosenberg

Poems by Isaac Rosenberg

vYouth is still childhood: when we cast off every cloudy vesture, and our thoughts are clear and mature; when every act is a conscious thought, every thought an attempt to arrest feeling; our feelings strong and overwhelming, our sensitiveness awakened by insignificant things in life; when the skies race tumultuously with our blood, and the earth shines and laughs; when our blood hangs suspended at the rustling of a gown. Our vanity loves to subduebattle, aggressive. How we despise those older and dullerwe want life, newness, excitement. The poems whose titles are marked * appeared in a privately issued pamphlet, Night and Day. By Isaac Rosenberg. 1912 (pp. 24); those marked in Youth. By Isaac Rosenberg. London, I. Narodiczky, Printer, 48 Mile End Road, E. 1915 (pp. 18); and those marked in Moses. A Play. By Isaac Rosenberg. London, Printed By The Paragon Printing Works, 8 Ocean Street, Stepney Green, E. 1916 (pp. ii + 26). Of the many young poets who gave their lives in the war, Isaac Rosenberg was not the least gifted. Adverse circumstances, imperfect education, want of opportunity, impeded and obscured his genius; but whatever criticism be made of his poetry, its faults are plainly those of excess rather than deficiency. His writing was often difficult and obscure, because he instinctively thought in images and did not sufficiently appreciate the limitations of language. Also, a continual fear of being empty or thin led him to an over-intricate complexity. But there was no incoherence in his mind. And the main object of these notes, beyond recording the facts of his life, is to illustrate the growth and workings of his mind from his own letters, which will be the best commentary on his poems. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 66889
Author: Rosenberg, Isaac
Release Date: Dec 6, 2021
Format: eBook
Language: English

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Editor: Bottomley, Gordon, 1874-1948