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OverviewFirst published in 1962 this selection, made by the poets themselves, draws on the volumes they had published up to that date and forms a valuable introduction to their work. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Ted Hughes , Thom GunnPublisher: Faber & Faber Imprint: Faber & Faber Edition: Main Dimensions: Width: 12.10cm , Height: 0.60cm , Length: 18.60cm Weight: 0.070kg ISBN: 9780571130948ISBN 10: 0571130941 Pages: 64 Publication Date: 14 March 1983 Audience: Primary & secondary/elementary & high school , Educational: Primary & Secondary Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsTo judge by the selected works of a man many consider her greatest contemporary poet, England is in serious literary trouble. Careful, well-crafted, with the over-diligent working of metaphor, these poems are almost totally deficient in vitality, spontaneity, and playfulness. To quote what is no doubt an unwitting self-description, his compilation of imageries rarely goes beyond itself: By feats of torpor, by circumventing sleights/ Of stupefaction, juggleries of benumbing,/ By lucid sophistries of sight/ To a staturing 'I am.' The subject matter is appropriately yesteryear: references to Cuchulain, Parnell, Faustus, King and Country, The War to End All Wars; words like behemoth, invocations such as Aged Eye! However, some of his later nature poems, where he assumes the guise of rock, wind, or animal, transcend this academic categorizing into a kind of ecstasy ( The moon has stepped back like an artist gazing at a work/ That points at him amazed ), giving promise to the more interesting direction of his future (now current) work. (Kirkus Reviews) Author InformationThom Gunn was born in Gravesend, Kent in 1929. After National Service and a short time living in Paris, he enrolled at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he read English. He published his first book of poems, Fighting Terms, while he was still an undergraduate. In 1954 he moved to San Francisco and held a one-year Fellowship at Stanford University. He published over thirty books of poetry, including The Man with Night Sweats, which won the Forward Prize for Poetry in 1992, and Boss Cupid (2000). Thom Gunn died in 2004 Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |