![]() ![]() ![]() Later on I would find a different kind of accuracy, a moral down-to-earthness to which I responded deeply and always will, in the war poetry of Wilfred Owen, a poetry where a New Testament sensibility suffers and absorbs the shock of the new century's barbarism. "Even as a schoolboy, I loved John Keats's ode "To Autumn" for being an ark of the covenant between language and sensation as an adolescent, I loved Gerard Manley Hopkins for the intensity of his exclamations which were also equations for a rapture and an ache I didn't fully know I knew until I read him I loved Robert Frost for his farmer's accuracy and his wily down-to-earthness and Chaucer too for much the same reasons. In his Nobel Lecture, delivered in 1995, he talked about other poets who have influenced him: ![]()
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