James Fenton. Selected Poems - Softcover

Fenton, James

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141024410 ISBN 13: 9780141024417

Publisher: Penguin, 2006

Synopsis

For the first time, James Fenton selects the best of his prize-winning poetry for the Penguin Selected series.

'Passionate and personal; Fenton's poems can also be extremely funny and violent; they are always full of the pleasures of the language' Paul Theroux

'James Fenton is very popular - it's the way he writes, with a mixture of poetic language and real directness' Peter Porter

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Review

Praise for" Out of Danger: "[Fenton] writes as no one else dares to--with clarity, wit, and the simplest of rhymes . . . Like Auden, Fenton displays enormous range." -"Village Voice Literary Supplement" "What love of words . . . could fail to be delighted by these heart-wrenching . . . lines?" -Geoffrey Stokes, "The "Boston" Sunday Globe"""

Praise for" Out of Danger: " "[Fenton] writes as no one else dares to--with clarity, wit, and the simplest of rhymes . . . Like Auden, Fenton displays enormous range." -"Village Voice Literary Supplement""" "What love of words . . . could fail to be delighted by these heart-wrenching . . . lines?" -Geoffrey Stokes, "The ""Boston"" Sunday Globe"""""""

Praise for" Out of Danger: " "İFenton¨ writes as no one else dares to--with clarity, wit, and the simplest of rhymes . . . Like Auden, Fenton displays enormous range." -"Village Voice Literary Supplement""" "What love of words . . . could fail to be delighted by these heart-wrenching . . . lines?" -Geoffrey Stokes, "The ""Boston"" Sunday Globe"""""""

Praise for" Out of Danger: " " [Fenton] writes as no one else dares to-- with clarity, wit, and the simplest of rhymes . . . Like Auden, Fenton displays enormous range." - "Village Voice Literary Supplement""" " What love of words . . . could fail to be delighted by these heart-wrenching . . . lines?" - Geoffrey Stokes, "The ""Boston"" Sunday Globe"""""""

Praise for" Out of Danger: "

"[Fenton] writes as no one else dares to--with clarity, wit, and the simplest of rhymes . . . Like Auden, Fenton displays enormous range." -"Village Voice Literary Supplement"
""
"What love of words . . . could fail to be delighted by these heart-wrenching . . . lines?" -Geoffrey Stokes, "The ""Boston"" Sunday Globe"""""""
Praise for" Out of Danger: "
"[Fenton] writes as no one else dares to--with clarity, wit, and the simplest of rhymes . . . Like Auden, Fenton displays enormous range." -"Village Voice Literary Supplement"
""
"What love of words . . . could fail to be delighted by these heart-wrenching . . . lines?" -Geoffrey Stokes, "The ""Boston"" Sunday Globe"""""""

[Fenton] writes as no one else dares to with clarity, wit, and the simplest of rhymes . . . Like Auden, Fenton displays enormous range. "Village Voice Literary Supplement on Out of Danger"

What love of words . . . could fail to be delighted by these heart-wrenching . . . lines? "Geoffrey Stokes, The Boston Sunday Globe on Out of Danger""

"[Fenton] writes as no one else dares to--with clarity, wit, and the simplest of rhymes . . . Like Auden, Fenton displays enormous range." --Village Voice Literary Supplement on Out of Danger

"What love of words . . . could fail to be delighted by these heart-wrenching . . . lines?" --Geoffrey Stokes, The Boston Sunday Globe on Out of Danger

About the Author

James Fenton was born in Lincoln in 1949 and educated at Magdalen College, Oxford where he won the Newdigate Prize for poetry. He has worked as political journalist, drama critic, book reviewer, war correspondence, foreign correspondent and columnist. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and was Oxford Professor of Poetry for the period 1994-99. He has published three volumes of poetry with Penguin, The Memory of War, Out of Danger and The Love Bomb, as well as An Introduction to English Poetry (2002). His work has won him the Southern Arts Literature Award for Poetry, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and the Whitbread Award for Poetry. He writes regularly for the New Yorker and the Guardian.

Edition details

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0141024410
• ISBN 13: 9780141024417
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 224