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Shakespeare's Birthday
Peter Levi
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Paperback. A companion volume to "The Echoing Green" (1983), that collects three laments - in memory of Charles Haldeman, Caryl Brahms and Alasdair Clayre. Num Pages: 40 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 190 x 130. Weight in Grams: 65. Clean copy with minor shelf wear and discolouring
The lamentation of the dead has been a preoccupation in Peter Levi's recent poetry, as well as the subject of his inaugural lecture as Oxford Professor of Poetry in 1984. Few poets of our time have found ways in which to compose such sustained meditations on matters of life and death as Peter Levi has done in these personal yet formal poems. "Shakespeare's Birthday" collects three laments - in memory of Charles Haldeman, Caryl Brahms and Alasdair Clayre - written since those included in "The Echoing Green" (1983), to which this forms a companion volume.
The lamentation of the dead has been a preoccupation in Peter Levi's recent poetry, as well as the subject of his inaugural lecture as Oxford Professor of Poetry in 1984. Few poets of our time have found ways in which to compose such sustained meditations on matters of life and death as Peter Levi has done in these personal yet formal poems. "Shakespeare's Birthday" collects three laments - in memory of Charles Haldeman, Caryl Brahms and Alasdair Clayre - written since those included in "The Echoing Green" (1983), to which this forms a companion volume.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1985
Publisher
Anvil Press Poetry
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
40
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780856461422
SKU
KOG0001071
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About Peter Levi
Peter Levi, who died in 2000, was elected Professor of Poetry at Oxford University in 1984. Until 1977 he was a Jesuit priest. He was a classicist whose writing includes three uncategorizable books - on modern Greece, Afghanistan, and the English landscape - as well as translations, critical and scholarly works, and a thriller. But he was first and foremost ... Read more
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