This Dialogue of one: Essays on Poets from John Donne to: Essays on Poets from John Donne to Joan Murray - Softcover

Ford, Mark

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1908998881 ISBN 13: 9781908998880

Publisher: Eyewear Publishing, 2015

Synopsis

This Dialogue of One collects thirteen essays on English, French and American poets by one of the era’s most engaging and highly esteemed poet-critics. Like Randall Jarrell, whose achievement is assessed here, Ford combines a refreshing openness to innovation with an authoritative awareness of what makes a poem stand the test of time. Witty, astute and wide-ranging, Ford demonstrates his formidable gifts as a close reader of poetry, whether exploring canonical works by the likes of Whitman, Dickinson, Baudelaire and T.S. Eliot, or championing the cause of neglected figures such as James Thomson, Samuel Greenberg and Joan Murray. As John Lanchester once observed of Ford’s essays, ‘If more literary criticism were like this, more people would read it.’

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About the Author

Mark Ford has published four volumes of poetry, Landlocked (1992), Soft Silt (2001), Six Children (2011) and Selected Poems (2014). He has also written a biography of the French poet, playwright and novelist Raymond Roussel and translated Roussel's New Impressions of Africa. His anthology, London: A History in Verse was published in 2012. He is a regular contributor to the London Review of Books and the New York Review of Books. THIS DIALOGUE OF ONE is his third collection of essays. He teaches in the English Department at University College London.

Edition details

• Publisher: Eyewear Publishing
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1908998881
• ISBN 13: 9781908998880
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 225