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Synopsis
'If there were no affliction in the world, we might think we were in
paradise,' wrote Simone Weil. This suggests the themes of Clive Wilmer's third collection of poems, Of Earthly Paradise. Christian ideas of paradise refer to the things of this world, to nature and the human body, with art empowered to construct visions of that paradise. A related theme is work-Adam's curse when he fell, but a blessing when work becomes synonymous with art.
Wilmer, an outstanding formal poet, uses rhymed and metrical forms and also makes inventive use of free verse. Martin Dodsworth, reviewing an earlier collection Devotions in the Guardian, said: 'It is the work of an original and still developing mind, capable of the radical re-interpretations of tradition that poetry is about.'
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti was a central figure in 19th-century art circles. He is the translator of The Early Italian Poets and the author of Poems and Ballads and Sonnets. Clive Wilmer teaches English at Cambridge University, where he is a Bye-Fellow of Fitzwilliam College, a fellow-commoner of Sidney Sussex College, and an honorary fellow of Anglia Polytechnic University. He is the author of The Falls, The Mystery of Things, and Selected Poems.
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- PublisherCarcanet Press Ltd.
- Publication date1995
- ISBN 10 1857541340
- ISBN 13 9781857541342
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages136
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