My Grandmother's Glass Eye : A Look at Poetry

ISBN-13: 9781848872899 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 224 str.

Craig Raine

Opis

From one of our leading contemporary critics and poets comes a fresh, wily, accessible book of poetry in all its forms.

Recenzje

Treat yourself to a blast of poetry this summer. Anyone remotely interested in the art form should read Craig Raine's wonderful My Grandmother's Glass Eye: A Look at Poetry (Atlantic). Feisty, provocative, learned, passionate - it is a seminal, lasting work. William Boyd Guardian

O autorze

Craig Raine was born in 1944 and educated at Exeter College, Oxford. He became editor of Quarto in 1979 and was subsequently Poetry Editor at Faber from 1981 to 1991. He is now an emeritus Fellow at New College, Oxford, and has been the editor of Areté since 1999. He is the author of three collections of literary essays, six works of poetry and two novels, Heartbreak and The Divine Comedy, published by Atlantic Books. His Collected Poems 1978-1999 were published in 2000 and his verse drama, '1953' was directed by Patrick Marber at the Almeida Theatre in 1996. He critical study T. S. Eliot was published in 2007.