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Heath Stubbs Literary Essays
Heath-Stubbs, John. Ed(S): Tolley, A.T.
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Paperback. A collection of John Heath-Stubbs's major literary essays. The earliest essay was written in 1945, and each piece reveals the insights of a practitioner in the poetic genre. In engaging his chosen writers, Heath-Stubbs employs his understanding of the poetic process. Editor(s): Tolley, A.T. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DN; DSA; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 135. Weight in Grams: 314.
To mark the poet John Heath-Stubbs' eightieth birthday, Carcanet publish his major literary essays. The earliest was written in 1945, the most recent half a century later. There is a notable continuity of concern and tact throughout the book: here is a poet who has not been distracted by the fashions and vagaries of the age from his vocation, which is to read deeply and to understand the very different terms on which every major writer wrestles poems from the language. These erudite, witty and considered pieces combine the insights of a substantial practitioner in all the poetic genre with ... Read more
To mark the poet John Heath-Stubbs' eightieth birthday, Carcanet publish his major literary essays. The earliest was written in 1945, the most recent half a century later. There is a notable continuity of concern and tact throughout the book: here is a poet who has not been distracted by the fashions and vagaries of the age from his vocation, which is to read deeply and to understand the very different terms on which every major writer wrestles poems from the language. These erudite, witty and considered pieces combine the insights of a substantial practitioner in all the poetic genre with ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781857543520
SKU
V9781857543520
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99-12
About Heath-Stubbs, John. Ed(S): Tolley, A.T.
JOHN HEATH-STUBBS was born in 1918 and educated at Oxford. He has been awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry and an OBE. Carcanet published four previous collections, a Collected and Selected Poems.
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