Complete Poems - Couverture rigide

Bell, Martin

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1852240423 ISBN 13 : 9781852240424

Editeur : Bloodaxe Books Ltd, 1988

Synopsis

Born in Hampshire in 1918, Martin Bell was the leading member of the 'lost generation' of English poets whose careers were interrupted by the War. He was a prominent member of The Group during the fifties, and a major influence on younger poets like Peter Redgrove and Peter Porter. His poetry reached a wide audience during the sixties through Penguin Modern Poets, and in 1967 he published his Collected Poems,1937-1966, his first and last book. Bell was also a champion and brilliant translator of French Surrealist poets. He died in poverty in Leeds in 1978. Like other 'provincial' working-class contemporaries, Bell wrote fantastical, highly erudite, biting, belligerent poetry. And yet – as Philip Hobsbaum said – he also wrote 'some of the most delicate love poems of our time' as well as 'one of the major war poems in the language'. A. Alvarez called him 'an emotional tightrope walker... He writes a rather bitter, tensely colloquial verse based, it seems, on a radical dislike for both himself and pretty much everything else.'

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Martin Bell was born in Hampshire in 1918. He was the leading member of the 'lost generation' of English poets whose careers were interrupted by the War. He was a prominent member of The Group during the fifties, and a major influence on younger poets like Peter Redgrove and Peter Porter. His poetry reached a wide audience during the sixties through Penguin Modern Poets, and in 1967 he published his Collected Poems,1937-1966, his first and last book. Bell was also a champion and brilliant translator of French Surrealist poets. He died in poverty in Leeds in 1978. His Complete Poems, edited by Peter Porter, was published by Bloodaxe in 1988. The hardback edition is out of print but the paperback edition is still available.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Bloodaxe Books Ltd
• Date d'édition: 1988
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1852240423
• ISBN 13: 9781852240424
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 240
• Éditeur: Porter Peter
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