In the Circumstances: About Poems and Poets

ISBN-13: 9780198112488 / Angielski / Twarda / 1992 / 272 str.

Peter Robinson

Opis

This book by a leading poet is a study of the way that people other than their authors contribute to poems. Discussing work by Wordsworth, Browning, Hardy, Pound, Eliot, Montale, Auden, Lowell, and Hill, Robinson explores how other people's lives and wider circumstances can influence the textual contexts of poems and be felt within the works themselves.

Recenzje

intelligent and useful...What Robinson has to say about Thomas Hardy and Robert Browning, about Wordsworth's `The Sailor's MOther' or Eliot's The Dry Salvages, is stimulating, lucid, and original...Robinson can bring a very sharp eye to bear on the verbal details of poetic texture, and is adept at highlighting words or constructions in particular poems which carry with them implications for larger patterns of critical understanding of the poet in question.

O autorze

Poet and translator