Poems And Essays By Jones Very, With A Biographical Sketch

by Jones Very, James Freeman Clarke (Foreword), Cyrus Augustus Bartol (Foreword)

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556 pages, Hardcover

First published August 11, 2015

Reviews

[Zachary Mays · Rating 3 out of 5]

Read through the essays portion. These three essays on Epic Poetry, Shakespeare, and Hamlet provide insight into Very's thinking about the nature of poetry and its connections to his religious faith. His essays on Shakespeare's works were particularly interesting as they provide background to to his own work (the bulk of his poetry being Shakespearean sonnets). I will probably skim through the poetry sections more thoroughly later as they contain many of the more "mediocre" poems not collected in the 1883 collection. But likely I will revisit his poetry with the more recent collection Jones Very: Selected Poems before diving into the biographies. I would also like to reread his Selected Sermons.