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Can Grande’s Castle is a collection of early 20th-century poetry by Amy Lowell eloquently representing that time period.
In Amy’s own words: “The four poems in this book are more closely related to one another than may at first appear. They all owe their existence to the war, for I suppose that, had there been no war, I should never have thought of them. They are scarcely war poems, in the strict sense of the word, nor are they allegories in which the present is made to masquerade as the past. Rather, they are the result of a vision thrown suddenly back upon remote events to explain a strange and terrible reality. ‘Explain’ is hardly the word, for to explain the subtle causes which force men, once in so often, to attempt to break the civilization they have been at pains to rear, and so oblige other, saner, men to oppose them, is scarcely the province of poetry. Poetry works more deviously, but perhaps not less conclusively.”
Included within Can Grande’s Castle you will find:
Sea-Blue and Blood-Red
Guns as Keys: and the Great Gate Swings
Hedge Island
The Bronze Horses
In Amy’s own words: “The four poems in this book are more closely related to one another than may at first appear. They all owe their existence to the war, for I suppose that, had there been no war, I should never have thought of them. They are scarcely war poems, in the strict sense of the word, nor are they allegories in which the present is made to masquerade as the past. Rather, they are the result of a vision thrown suddenly back upon remote events to explain a strange and terrible reality. ‘Explain’ is hardly the word, for to explain the subtle causes which force men, once in so often, to attempt to break the civilization they have been at pains to rear, and so oblige other, saner, men to oppose them, is scarcely the province of poetry. Poetry works more deviously, but perhaps not less conclusively.”
Included within Can Grande’s Castle you will find:
Sea-Blue and Blood-Red
Guns as Keys: and the Great Gate Swings
Hedge Island
The Bronze Horses