The Independent - London, July 20th, 2000
A HUNDRED years after the innovations of free verse, poets and critics still accuse each other of reaction and betrayal as if civilisation itself depended upon the way poets come to the end of the line, writes Ruth Morse [further to the obituary of A.D. Hope by Ian Donaldson, 17 July ]. A.D. Hope was an atavism, recapitulating the great subjects of European formal verse with clarity, passion and wit and preserving the shock of the old. Not since Donne has anyone written with such elegant power of male sexuality and its curious contingency to creation. Mandarin, misogynist, manichee - the accus...
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