By his death, at the age of 41, John Riley's poetry had achieved an
importance beyond the trends of the day. Significant though his poems
were
in the 1960s and after, their value goes beyond their immediate poetic
and
social context. Riley's is a poetry of integrity and vision, in which
precise observation and wit co-exist with an extraordinary beauty of
image
and rhythm. What he achieves is art of a high order.


By his death, at the age of 41, John Riley's poetry had achieved an  
importance beyond the trends of the day. Significant though his poems
were  
in the 1960s and after, their value goes beyond their immediate poetic
and  
social context. Riley's is a poetry of integrity and vision, in which  
precise observation and wit co-exist with an extraordinary beauty of
image  
and rhythm. What he achieves is art of a high order.


John Riley: Selected PoemsPaperback, 1 October 1995

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