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Collected Poems
Andrew Marvell
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Description for Collected Poems
Hardback. The definitive collection of Sean O'Brien's poetry, drawn from almost 40 years' work. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 219 x 143 x 45. Weight in Grams: 668.
This collection, drawing on almost forty years of verse, represents the definitive guide to one of the leading English poets working today. It will allow the reader the chance to survey both the remarkable variety and the consistent quality of O’Brien’s work, as well as the enduring strength of his obsessions: these have helped create a tone and a landscape as immediately recognizable as those of MacNeice, Larkin or Eliot. O’Brien’s hells and heavens, underworlds and urban dystopias, trains and waterways have formed the imaginative theatre for his songs, satires, pastorals and elegies; throughout, the poems demonstrate O’Brien’s astonishing flair ... Read more
This collection, drawing on almost forty years of verse, represents the definitive guide to one of the leading English poets working today. It will allow the reader the chance to survey both the remarkable variety and the consistent quality of O’Brien’s work, as well as the enduring strength of his obsessions: these have helped create a tone and a landscape as immediately recognizable as those of MacNeice, Larkin or Eliot. O’Brien’s hells and heavens, underworlds and urban dystopias, trains and waterways have formed the imaginative theatre for his songs, satires, pastorals and elegies; throughout, the poems demonstrate O’Brien’s astonishing flair ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Number of pages
528
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
528
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781447217350
SKU
V9781447217350
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99-50
About Andrew Marvell
Sean O’Brien is a poet, critic, playwright, broadcaster, anthologist and editor. He grew up in Hull and now lives in Newcastle upon Tyne; he is Professor of Creative Writing at Newcastle University and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. The Drowned Book won both the Forward Prize for best collection and the T S Eliot Prize. His most recent ... Read more
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