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Tretower to Clyro: Essays
Karl Miller
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Description for Tretower to Clyro: Essays
Paperback.
In his latest book of essays Karl Miller turns his attention to appreciate certain writers of the English-speaking modern world. A new ruralism has come to notice in this country, and the book is drawn to country lives as they have figured in the literature of the last century. An introductory essay is centred on the Anglo-Welsh borderlands. Journeys taken with Seamus Heaney and Andrew O'Hagan to this countryside, and others, are threaded throughout the book. The poets Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes are discussed, together with the fiction of Ian McEwan, the Canadian writer Alistair Macleod, the Irish writer ... Read more
In his latest book of essays Karl Miller turns his attention to appreciate certain writers of the English-speaking modern world. A new ruralism has come to notice in this country, and the book is drawn to country lives as they have figured in the literature of the last century. An introductory essay is centred on the Anglo-Welsh borderlands. Journeys taken with Seamus Heaney and Andrew O'Hagan to this countryside, and others, are threaded throughout the book. The poets Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes are discussed, together with the fiction of Ian McEwan, the Canadian writer Alistair Macleod, the Irish writer ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Quercus Publishing
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780857388391
SKU
V9780857388391
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About Karl Miller
Karl Miller was educated at the Royal High School of Edinburgh and Cambridge and Harvard Universities. He became literary editor of the Spectator and the New Statesman as well as editor of the Listener, and went on the found The London Review of Books, which he edited for many years. From 1974 to 1992 he served as Lord Northcliffe Professor ... Read more
Reviews for Tretower to Clyro: Essays
'Imbued with his usual eloquence and foresight ... his criticism attains an artistic quality of its own' Financial Times.
Financial Times
'A new collection of essays by Karl Miller is a cause for jubilation' Independent.
Independent
'Wide-ranging, brilliantly erudite and eccentric' Margaret Drabble, Observer.
Observer
Financial Times
'A new collection of essays by Karl Miller is a cause for jubilation' Independent.
Independent
'Wide-ranging, brilliantly erudite and eccentric' Margaret Drabble, Observer.
Observer