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Transatlantic: Later Poems - Softcover

Rowe, Dr. Alfred Lestie

 
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Synopsis

A. L. Rowse is thought of primarily as an historian, but he continued to write poetry all his long life; his poetry contains his inner life, where his books on the Elizabethan age and Shakespeare contain the outer.

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Review

The memory test and the recurring pleasure test are the only ones that count for poetry, and A.L.Rowse passes both. He has a generosity of spirit and a lyrical intelligence which are unmistakeable and inimitable....it is genuine poetry, rooted in Cornwall and in Oxford history...age has given a new elegance to his verse and the poems have a modernity of strength, a clarity and honety that make one see him as a contemporary of Auden. He is a balanced writer, with the wisdom as well as the sadness and rage of an historian. -- Peter Levi, The Catholic Herald

Traditional, cool, ordered - literate, witty, ironic and often poignant -- Times Literary Supplement

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