Rapture critical comments

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Margaret Reynolds, The Guardian (2006) (The love poem)
‘weaving tags and quotations from well-known poems – “my mistress’ eyes”, “let me count the ways”, “dear heart”, “O my America” – she makes an epitaph for loss’
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Margaret Reynolds (The love poem) *persuasive gifts
“Duffy’s most persuasive gifts are her unashamedly lyrical voice and her distinctively intellectual attention to repetition and wordplay”
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William Logan, The New York Times (2013) (Forest)
‘Duffy is particularly susceptible to this fairy tale of love’
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Frances Leviston (Hour)
‘Hour explores this peculiarly elastic sense of time’ ['for thousands of seconds we kiss']
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Frances Leviston (Text)
‘threaten this dreamy timelessness’
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Frances Leviston
‘Rapture is nevertheless a fresh and skilful supplement to the tradition’
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Jeanette Winterson, The Times
‘Rapture is a map of real love, in all its churning complexity’
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Nick Laird
‘this awareness of the love poem’s heritage allows Duffy to make new ones’
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Catherine Lanone (Conceit - Finding the Words)
'Duffy's conceit recalls Thomas Hardy's fascination with relics of lost love'
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Catherine Lanone (The Love Poem - jazz)
'seems like a jazz variation answering each of the embedded quotes'
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Catherine Lanone (You - metamorphosis)
'triggering with Blakeian energy the metamorphosis of the lover into a tiger leaping among the speakers 'camouflaged rooms'
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Catherine Lanone (World - compared to Donne)
''World' creates a beautiful conceit in the manner of John Donne, as the lovers exchange not hearts but night and day…which creates cosmic harmony'
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Margaret Reynolds (The love poem) *persuasive gifts

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“Duffy’s most persuasive gifts are her unashamedly lyrical voice and her distinctively intellectual attention to repetition and wordplay”

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William Logan, The New York Times (2013) (Forest)

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Frances Leviston (Hour)

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Frances Leviston (Text)

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