Issue Details: First known date: 2020... 2020 Not Gold but It Stays Good : The Poetry of Clive James
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'For most of his writing life Clive James was a much better poetry critic than he was a poet. Though he was wrong about Hardy, whose work he undervalued, he was particularly strong on twentieth-century poets, including W.B. Yeats, W.H. Auden, Louis MacNeice, Richard Wilbur and Philip Larkin, and he had an eye for newer talent (such as Stephen Edgar) others tended to miss before James spotted it. As a poet, though, he was for many years lost “through comfort” (to quote MacNeice on minor poets)—the comfort occasioned by celebrity and his remarkable achievements as a critic, memoirist and television personality. This makes his late flowering as a poet even more precious.' (Introduction)

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    y separately published work icon Quadrant vol. 64 no. 3 March 2020 21350154 2020 periodical issue 2020 pg. 35-40
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