Strong Words Herbert W. N.
Strong Words Herbert W. N. Poetry has never been so rigorous and diverse, nor has its audience been so numerous and engaged. Not if the poets are right. Strong words? Opening the 20th century account…
Specifikacia Strong Words Herbert W. N.
Strong Words Herbert W. N.
Poetry has never been so rigorous and diverse, nor has its audience been so numerous and engaged. Not if the poets are right. Strong words?
Opening the 20th century account with Ezra Pound, W.B. As Ezra Pound wrote: 'You would think anyone wanting to know about poetry would go to someone who knew something about it.' That's exactly what Bloodaxe has done with this judicious and comprehensive selection of British, Irish and American manifestos by some of modern poetry's finest practitioners. Yeats and T.S.
Eliot, the book moves through key later figures including W.H. Auden, Ted Hughes, Stevie Smith and Dylan Thomas. America is richly represented too, from Robert Frost and William Carlos Williams to the influential New England poets Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Bishop and Sylvia Plath.
Strong Words then brings the issues fully up to date with over 30 specially commissioned statements from