Selected Poems - Couverture souple

Heath-Stubbs, John

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 178410647X ISBN 13 : 9781784106478

Editeur : Carcanet Classics, 2018

Synopsis

C.H. Sisson called John Heath-Stubbs 'a Johnsonian presence with a Miltonic disability' - a reference to the poet's blindness. This selection of an abundant poet restores him to a new readership with the work on which his popularity was based. His ground-breaking early poetry is given its due, especially the major long poem Wounded Thammuz, printed here in its entirety. Heath-Stubbs was at the centre of the New Romantic school. The Second World War left him as almost the sole representative of one stream of English poetry. He remains crucial to the 1940s and '50s, and was a popular presence into the 1980s, composing his later poems in his head and reciting from memory. Too long he has been sidelined by shifts of critical fashion. Selected Poems includes a critical preface by John Clegg who essentialises and celebrates the work. Three of Heath-Stubbs' translations of Leopardi - revered by subsequent translators, and long out of print - are included.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

John Heath-Stubbs was born in 1918 and educated at Queens College, Oxford. A critic, anthologist and translator as well as a poet, he has received the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry and the prestigious Cross of St Augustine. Carcanet published seven previous collections by Heath-Stubbs, as well as a Collected Poems and a collection of his literary essays. In 1988 he was awarded the OBE. His poetry was published by Carcanet for almost thirty years. He died in London in December 2006.

John Clegg was born in Chester in 1986, and grew up in Cambridge where he now lives. In 2013, he won an Eric Gregory Award. His PhD is from the University of Durham. His collection Holy Toledo! was published by Carcanet in 2016. John Clegg works as a bookseller and a literary sleuth in London.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Carcanet Classics
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 178410647X
• ISBN 13: 9781784106478
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 128
• Éditeur: Clegg John
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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