{Poetry as Transformation [continued]*}[11th August 1990]

[Redbook7:208][19900811:1027]{Poetry as Transformation [continued]*}[11th August 1990]

19900811.1027

[continued]

‘Thus, for neurotic people, those harassed by guilty feelings, troubled by sorrows, upset by nervous disorders, writing poetry can be quite as valuable a therapy as painting, which has at last found its way into the mental wards and into rehabilitation centres.’**

‘Many poets have said that they write poetry “to get things straight”. | Many readers would, I think, agree that poetry can have this effect upon them....[’]***

*[from entry before last]

**Ibid [T[each] Y[ourself] ‘Poetry’, Robin Skelton (1963)]: 160

(This is one from when the Teach Yourself series was was [published] by English Universities Press, and self-education was still taken extremely seriously by intelligent people. It is, as my extracts**** show, full of good things.)

***Ibid: 159-160

****[eg entry before last; &

[Redbook7:141][19900604:0010]{Poetry as Transformation}[4th June 1990]];

[Redbook7:142-148][19900613:0840]{Poetry (Extracts)}[13th June 1990]ff; 

& see other extracts from, & references to, other Teach Yourself titles elsewhere in these Journals]

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