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romantic love.Lust,in a world oflush blondes and prowling ad-men,ridesits broomstick with unusual honesty andlittle guilt.It is an area that Gavin Ewart,who had his first poems published inNew Verse and The Listener in 1933,whenhe was seventeen,has marked out as hisown.In those days he wrote mainly lightand occasional verse,though someof it,like Miss Twye,has become fameus.These new poems,however,nowcollected for the first time,mark a verydefinite,but not immediately obvious,change in the direction of his talent.Theyare serious without being solemn,vigorous in language and image,anddeceptively direct.Above all,they areentirely characteristic.This is nct iieanonymous poetry that could have beenwritten by a dozen living poets,but theidiosyncratic personal voice of a man whohas dispensed with masks.Pleasures ofthe Flesh is urban and contemporary.But while Gavin Ewart writes about arecognizable London with expertfamiliarity,his is by no means a surfacetalentIf he is at certain moments atopographer,he is also a black comedian,giving fantasy unexpected rein andcommentary a sharp twist.  \nAlthough he is a mainstream poet MrEwart claims two technical innovationsin form:the invention of the'doublepoem',where the narrative 'T'refers totwo widely differing people(there is oneexample in this book);and the ewart or'count-down poem³,where the unrhymedstanzas have a line length of 6,5,4,3,2,1.  \nphoto by Martin Breese  \nAlan Ross Ltd,30 Thurloe PlaceLondon SW7  \n21820  \nDISCARDEDNorthamptonshire Libraries  \nAMPTONSHIRE  \nCOUNTYLIBRARY  \n00400430313  \n9  \nAD2d  \n# PLEASURES OF THE FLESH\n\nGAVIN EWART  \n# LEASURES OF\n\nTHE  \nPoems and Songs I938Londoners I964Throwaway Lines I964  \n# FOR ALAN ROSS","cbCaihjOzY9IKtEx","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaihjOzY9IKtEx","pdf",2534705,84,"English","# Introduction to the Collection\n## Technical Innovations in Poetry\n## Poet Profile and Background","[{\"question\":\"What is the central theme of the poems in Pleasures of the 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