Ford Madox Ford, who had a subtle ear for the understated excellence of the nineteenth century writers, called her the most valuable poet that the Victorian age produced. Her modern admirers are many, especially among the poets. Philip Larkin speaks of her poetry as unequalled for its objective expression of happiness denied and a certain unfamiliar steely stoicism. This book provides Christina Rossetti's poetry in a simple volume, and includes an informative introduction to help identify the proper context in which to read her work.
Ford Madox Ford, who had a subtle ear for the understated excellence of the nineteenth century writers, called her the most valuable poet that the Vic...
Ford Madox Ford, who had a subtle ear for the understated excellence of the nineteenth century writers, called her "the most valuable poet that the Victorian age produced." Her modern admirers are many, especially among the poets. Philip Larkin speaks of her poetry as "unequalled for its objective expression of happiness denied and a certain unfamiliar steely stoicism." This book provides Christina Rossetti's poetry in a simple volume, and includes an informative introduction to help identify the proper context in which to read her work.
Ford Madox Ford, who had a subtle ear for the understated excellence of the nineteenth century writers, called her "the most valuable poet that the Vi...
His reputation has never settled, seeing as many reversals after his death as during his life. Though read and enjoyed ny many, fewer admire him openly. This volume includes all of his poetry and his most important essays.
His reputation has never settled, seeing as many reversals after his death as during his life. Though read and enjoyed ny many, fewer admire him openl...
C. H. Sisson's Selected Poems presents a half century's work by the writer deemed "England's finest living poet" by the London Times. Sisson's poems are characterized by a mastery of speech rhythms and imagery learned from Eliot, Pound, and T. E. Hulme. Serious and highly charged, they are steeped in literary tradition (Sisson is one of the great translators of Dante, Horace, Lucretius, and Virgil), and they draw on Sisson's remarkable knowledge of history and culture. Starting with poems written on a troopship and ending on home ground in Somerset, England, Selected Poems provides a...
C. H. Sisson's Selected Poems presents a half century's work by the writer deemed "England's finest living poet" by the London Times. Sisson's poems a...
In English Perspectives Sisson presents half a century's reflection on politics. He pursues his early concerns through decades in which he developed an unusual combination of interests. Commitment to the continuance of the English tradition is an essential part of his work as a poet, translator and critic, as well as in such book as The Spirit of British Administration with some European Comparisons and The Case of Walter Bagehot, which addressed subjects overtly political. A review of The Spirit of British Administration spoke of its 'agnosticism and...
In English Perspectives Sisson presents half a century's reflection on politics. He pursues his early concerns through decades in which he deve...
Traces half a century of C.H. Sisson's work, starting with poems written on a troopship in Bengal and ending on home ground in Somerset. Sisson's political and literary appraisals are resolutely English in stance. This book replaces Selected Poems (1981) and includes the sequence, Tristia.
Traces half a century of C.H. Sisson's work, starting with poems written on a troopship in Bengal and ending on home ground in Somerset. Sisson's poli...
