Poets in their time: Essays on English poetry from Donne to Larkin - Hardcover

Barbara Everett

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0571139787 ISBN 13: 9780571139781

Publisher: Faber and Faber, 1986

Synopsis

Widely regarded as one of England's most sensitive readers of poetry, Barbara Everett here examines the poetry of Donne, Milton, Marvell, Rochester, Pope, Keats, Browning, Eliot, Auden, and Philip Larkin. The implicit argument of these essays is designed to show the way each poet remains an individual--idiosyncratic, odd, rich--while interacting with the conditions of a particular historical context. To this difficult task Everett brings an extraordinary ability to read closely and an intimate knowledge of the period.

About this title

About the Author:

Barbara Everett is the author of Young Hamlet: Essays on Shakespearean Tragedy (O.U.P., 1989), and has edited Shakespeare's Anthony and Cleopatra (New Signet, 1964) and All's Well that Ends Well (Penguin, 1970). Poets in their Time was originally published by Faber and Faber in 1986 (now o/p).

Review:

`The book has all the strengths and some of the weaknesses of traditional English poetry criticism, combining a hair-splittingly subtle approach to smaller issues with a resolutely commonsensical and even pedestrian approach to larger ones.'
Sunday Times.

About this edition

• Publisher: Faber and Faber
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0571139787
• ISBN 13: 9780571139781
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 264