FORGOTTEN BARD: A BRIEF LIFE OF ROBERT PATHEN - Couverture souple

Macleod, Roderick

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1073491250 ISBN 13 : 9781073491254

Editeur : Independently published, 2019

Synopsis

The poetry of Robert Pathen, like the poet himself, is now largely forgotten. He was a man of his times, moulded in an era at once imperishable and cataclysmic, and humbly aware of his limitations. Like Kipling and Betjeman he was a poet of the people, looked down on rather in literary circles but striking a populist chord in his wistful sketches of country life. From the twenties to the forties his work regularly appeared in newspapers and journals such as Punch, Blackwood's and The Field, in hunting anthologies, and as epigraphs in the popular fiction of the day. Like so many of his peers, he outlived his time; the wave of post-war economic and social change in the 1950s heralded a new, unsentimental commercialism and his work became unfashionable.The author, who as a boy met Pathen by chance, has pieced together his life story from painstaking research and interviews with those who knew him, and paints a convincing and sympathetic picture of a gentle and creative man whose rediscovery is overdue.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Independently published
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1073491250
• ISBN 13: 9781073491254
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 161
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible