I have just read the Guardian,UK, where Crow is described as boilerplate bombast. I find it the best long poem of the post war period, but maybe better heard as well as read. My own tape is pretty worn. It's brave and powerful. It digs deep. It aint modest or reticent, unlike so many english poems paling in Larkin's grim shadow. It does not fear the charge of pretension.
2006-07-14
Added by: james green
i love these poems so much. there's a sense of humor to them that keeps them fresh and they're still so serious and oddly healing. IS THERE A SPOKEN VERSION (by hughes) available? i haven'ts seen that i would really really dig that.