The poems of This Much Endures are presented in four groups: Ancient Voices; Two Hunterian Poems; Amoretti; and Dedications. Fiona Stafford of Somerville College, Oxford, wrote the Introduction. Here are two quotations from it:
“From first to last, the voice of the poems speaks with the economy of tested truth: utterly assured, utterly convincing.”
“The volume’s overall truth derives as much from the poet’s understanding of the pain and injustice of the world as from his recognition of what helps to combat the darkness. A life-enhancing preoccupation with endurance depends on a hard-won sense of what is to be endured.”
“From first to last, the voice of the poems speaks with the economy of tested truth: utterly assured, utterly convincing.”
“The volume’s overall truth derives as much from the poet’s understanding of the pain and injustice of the world as from his recognition of what helps to combat the darkness. A life-enhancing preoccupation with endurance depends on a hard-won sense of what is to be endured.”