As well as a highly respected poet and editor, Mick Imlah (1956 2009) was one of the finest literary critics of his generation. He spent most of his twenty-five-year career working for the Times Literary Supplement, reinterpreting familiar writers from Tennyson and Trollope to Larkin and Muldoon, and as his interest in his Scottish background grew elucidating those fallen from favour, such as Barrie, Buchan, Muir and Scott. With a preface by Mark Ford, this volume draws together a selection of Imlah s essays that reveal the formidable breadth of his unique literary insight, and the...
As well as a highly respected poet and editor, Mick Imlah (1956 2009) was one of the finest literary critics of his generation. He spent most of his t...
After his spectacular early career, in which he became one of the best-loved and most controversial poets of his time, and his radical and productive middle years, John Ashbery continued effortlessly finding new directions in the 1990s and into the twenty-first century, writing playfully, inventively. His language is exquisitely attuned to mundane reality, transforming it. Here in a single, substantial, authoritative, and helpfully annotated volume are seven complete books from this crucial period, starting with Flow Chart (1991), a tour de force that shows Ashbery's mastery of `the entire...
After his spectacular early career, in which he became one of the best-loved and most controversial poets of his time, and his radical and productive ...
