Saving from the Wreck: Essays on Poetry

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Trent, 2001 - 202 páginas
This rich collection of Peter Porter's critical essays on poetry covers such subjects as the Earl of Rochester, Christopher Smart, George Crabbe, Robert Browning, Wallace Stevens, and John Ashbery.

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POETRY AND MADNESS
1
SAVING FROM THE WRECK
23
THE SHAPE OF POETRY AND THE SHAPE OF MUSIC
49
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Acerca do autor (2001)

Peter Porter was born in Brisbane, Australia on February 16, 1929. He moved to London in 1951 and worked as a bookseller and in advertising before writing on poetry for the Observer. In 1961, he published his first collection of poems, Once Bitten, Twice Bitten. His other works include The Cost of Seriousness, Better Than God, and Max is Missing, which won the Forward prize in 2001. His other awards include the Duff Cooper prize, the Whitbread poetry award, and the Queen's Gold Medal for poetry. He died on April 23, 2010 at the age of 81.

Informação bibliográfica

TítuloSaving from the Wreck: Essays on Poetry
Trent Essays
AutorPeter Porter
EditoraTrent, 2001
Original deUniversidade de Michigan
Digitalizado26 Fev 2008
ISBN1842330551, 9781842330555
Número de páginas202 páginas
  
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