Railway Rhymes - Rilegato

Ashley, Peter

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ISBN 10: 1841597783 ISBN 13: 9781841597782

Casa editrice: Everyman, 2007

Riassunto

Railway Rhymes is probably the first time that the poetry of railways has been brought together into one dedicated volume. Here will certainly be found the old favourites - Philip Larkin's 'Whitsun Weddings', W.H. Auden's 'Night Mail', John Betjeman's 'Distant View of a Provincial Town', - but equally this little book is stuffed with forgotten gems like Edmund Blunden's 'Two Wars' and Patricia Beer's 'The Branch Line'. Divided up into chapters entitled Navigation, Engineering, Waiting, Travellingand Musing, Railway Rhymes is the perfect pocket companion for waiting room and train compartment alike

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Recensione:

Not many people seem to have an idea of the effect the railways had on most people s lives, or, interestingly, how many poets and writers felt compelled to write about those changes. There was also a surge of Industrial Romanticism that they brought out in poets and writers. A wee gem. Read it cover to cover today. --Robbie Coltrane

Descrizione del libro:

A beautiful gift book for lovers of poetry and railways! The idea Christmas present. Includes poets such as John Betjeman, Edward Thomas, Walter de la Mare, Thomas Hardy, Robert Louis Stevenson, WH Auden, TS Eliot, Philip Larkin and many more.

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• Editore: Everyman
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1841597783
• ISBN 13: 9781841597782
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 192