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The Faber Book of Vernacular Verse
Tom Paulin
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Description for The Faber Book of Vernacular Verse
paperback. In this anthology, Tom Paulin aims to represent the extended family of vernacular poets and to show how Christina Rosetti, Hopkins, Whitman and other poets have drawn on the energies of popular speech such as children's chants, nursery rhymes, weather-saws and anonymous ballads. Editor(s): Paulin, Tom. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: DC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 136 x 215 x 34. Weight in Grams: 514. Very good copy showing minor age and wear
Mixing poems by known authors with anonymous material - work songs and street cries, nursery jingles, graffiti, lyrics of suffering and celebration, charms and chants - Tom Paulin's anthology speaks for an alternative tradition, one that nimbly and defiantly opposes the 'Parnassian official order' which still dominates our culture.
Mixing poems by known authors with anonymous material - work songs and street cries, nursery jingles, graffiti, lyrics of suffering and celebration, charms and chants - Tom Paulin's anthology speaks for an alternative tradition, one that nimbly and defiantly opposes the 'Parnassian official order' which still dominates our culture.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Faber London
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
432
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780571170609
SKU
KMK0025116
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Tom Paulin
Tom Paulin was born in Leeds in 1949 but grew up in Belfast, and was educated at the universities of Hull and Oxford. He has published nine collections of poetry, of which the most recent is Love's Bonfire (2012), as well as several critical works including The Day-Star of Liberty: William Hazlitt's Radical Style (1998) and Crusoe's Secret: The Aesthetics ... Read more
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