Tom Paulin

Broschiertes Buch

The Secret Life of Poems

A Poetry Primer

Beschreibung

The Secret Life of Poems is a primer which offers a poem - or on occasion an excerpt - succeeding with commentary in which rhythm, form, metre and sources are the order of the day, not ethical commentary or descriptive paraphrase.

Autor

Tom Paulin was born in Leeds in 1949 but grew up in Belfast, and was educated at the universities of Hull and Oxford. He has published nine collections of poetry as well as a Selected Poems 1972-1990, two major anthologies, two versions of Greek drama, and several critical works, including The Day-Star of Liberty: William Hazlitt's Radical Style and, most recently, Crusoe's Secret: The Aesthetics of Dissent. His most recent collection of poems is Love's Bonfire (2012). Well known for his appearances on the BBC's Newsnight Review, he is also the G. M. Young Lecturer in English Literature at Hertford College, Oxford.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Faber & Faber
• Main
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. August 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 197mm x 128mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 208g
• ISBN-13: 9780571278718
• ISBN-10: 057127871X
• Artikelnr.: 33627138