The Collected Poems (Oxford Poets S.) - Softcover

Stevenson, Anne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0192832514 ISBN 13: 9780192832511

Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks, 1996

Synopsis

This volume brings together all the poems Anne Stevenosn wishes to preserve from over forty year's writing. Her earlier titles, including Correspondence: a family history in letters , made her name in America, where she grew up. The more recent of her ten collections have won acclaim mainly in Britain. Wise, funny, witty, grave: she is a poet of many moods and subjects, but always preoccupied with language and its music. She is one of the most versatile and lively poets of her two countries, the United States and Great Britain. nne Stevenson now lives in Gwynedd, Wales, and in Grantchester, near Cambridge, England. She is the author of a biography of Sylvia Plath and of many critical essays. Of Selected Poems 1956-1986 `She is a stylist of fresh and dark tones. She has plenty of things to say, chooses what she says, and speaks with a lucid momentum. In every generation one is afraid that they are not making poets like her any more.' Peter Levi, Poetry Review This book is intended for poetry readers, UK and America. (Women readers; women's courses).

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Review

'Tomlinson insists, and he has a right to insist, that he is as authentic a voice of modern Britain as Larkin is - Only in the great poets is content so intimately married to form'. - Donald Davie 'Against the word as spectacle, Tomlinson opposes the concept - a very English one - of the world as event - He is fascinated - with his eyes open: a lucid fascination - by the universal busyness, the continuous generation and degeneration of things'. - Octavio Paz --Octavio Paz

'He has divided his line according to a new measure learned, perhaps, for a new world. It gives a refreshing rustle or seething to the words which bespeak the entrance of a new life'. - William Carlos Williams. --William Carlos Williams

'Tomlinson, born in 1927, is a unique voice in contemporary English poetry, and has been a satellite of excellence for the past 50 years' David Morley, Guardian. 'Few poets are as natural or as exact as Charles Tomlinson - it's as if all his experience is waiting to be trapped'. Matthew Sweeney, Observer. --Matthew Sweeney, Observer

About the Author

About the Author: Anne Stevenson now lives in Gwynedd, Wales, and in Grantchester, near Cambridge, England. She is the author of a biography of Sylvia Plath and of many critical essays.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0192832514
• ISBN 13: 9780192832511
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288