Carcanet press 1995 (9 risultati)

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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - John Clare was an assiduous practitioner of the sonnet form at all periods of his poetic career. The sonnets he produced in the last few years before his institutionalisation in 1837, first at High Beech and then in Northampton General Asylum, are of particular interest, since he exploited the inherent brevity of the form to express a simultaneous precision of observation and starkness of vision that he rarely achieved either before or after. The present volume prints all the sonnets that Clare wrote at Northborough between 1832 and 1837 with the exception of those included in The Midsummer Cushion and The Rural Muse. Northborough Sonnets allows the reader to trace the development of Clare's handling of the form in this period. They constitute fascinating vignettes of rural life in the early nineteenth century and the record of a unique poetic sensibility.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The virtuosity and high spirits of Sophie Hannah's poems are unusual at any time of day. She handles rhymed metrical forms with wily insouciance and passes the 'memorability test' with flying colors. What seems simple or simply achieved more often than not on closer inspection yields subtleties of feeling and form. A surrealising impulse unsettles even the most tidy of her stanzas with a shrewd imaginative wantonness. Her experiments with subject-matter produce something more satisfying than 'social verse'. An urban person who prefers shopping, eating and romance to hopping over cowpats on a country walk, she writes with generous rather than reductive wit.…

8°, gebundene Ausgabe. Condizione: Gut. 348 S. Guter Zustand mit Gebrauchsspuren OM22 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 800.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware.

Signed by the author to the title page. First edition. Original softback. Poetry. As new condition. 64 pages. 215 by 135mm (8½ by 5¼ inches).