Reviews for Collected poems

The average rating for Collected poems based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2014-06-09 00:00:00 Sam Gross Dad recommended Graves to me when I was a high schooler. He'd read him, during the war, often on shipboard, on the Atlantic, the Pacific and the Mediterranean. It had livened the boredom, he said. I started with some of the historical novels, with Homer's Daughter, I think, or maybe with his translation of the Iliad, a book he entitled The Wrath of Achilles. Then I moved on to some of his essays and short stories, finally to his poetry. I picked up this volume at Stuart Brent bookstore on Michigan Avenue in Chicago, just north of Ontario Street where I worked as a security guard of sorts at The Chicago Womens' Athletic Club--an easy job that allowed a lot of time for study and writing, a job that I had twice, once during a college summer and once after graduating from seminary and moving back from New York City. This being poetry, however, I read it piece by piece over the summer, some of it aloud.

Review # 2 was written on 2018-12-18 00:00:00 Himanshu Borah Loved these poems. While Graves isn't my favorite poet, he did write my all-time favorite poem - The Foreboding. Below, a sample... Would it be tomorrow, would it be next year? For the vision was not false, this much I knew; And I turned angrily from the open window Aghast at you. Why never a warning, either by speech or look, That the love you cruelly gave me could not last? Already it was too late: the bait swallowed, The hook fast. I guess I love this poem so much, because it speaks to a very personal experience of mine.