Stevie Smith | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 22 pages of analysis & critique of Stevie Smith.

Stevie Smith | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 22 pages of analysis & critique of Stevie Smith.
This section contains 6,506 words
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Buy the Critical Essay by Calvin Bedient

SOURCE: "Stevie Smith," in Eight Contemporary Poets: Charles Tomlinson, Donald Davie, R. S. Thomas, Philip Larkin, Ted Hughes, Thomas Kinsella, Stevie Smith, W. S. Graham, Oxford University Press, 1974, pp. 139-58.

In the following essay, Bedient provides an overview of Smith's poetry.

Stevie Smith had a wonderfully various mind and her work is a forest of themes and attitudes. In large part it was her intelligence and honesty that led to this—to the protean, compound substance we all are. She was rather fierce about the truth—a modern peculiarity. The encouragement the age gives to both acceptance and doubt, the way it leaves us with the museum of everything without much trust in any of it, made her at once diverse and sardonic. ' … we are born in an age of unrest', observes Celia, the narrator of her third novel, The Holiday (1949), 'and unrestful we are, with a...

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