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Zusatztext She has an acute ear for a poet's voice, both in the individual life and in the work as a whole ... But an ear without a brain is not enough. Barbara Everett also shows a developed and fastidious historical imagination. Informationen zum Autor Barbara Everett is the author of Young Hamlet: Essays on Shakespearean Tragedy (OUP, 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 & Faber in 1986 (now o/p). Klappentext 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. By the author of Young Hamlet (Clarendon Paperbacks 1990) Zusammenfassung Barbara Everett brings her extraordinary ability to read closely and her intimate knowledge of the period to an examination of the work of a range of poets from the sixteenth century to the present day. The 12 essays show the way each poet remains an individual while interacting with a particular historical context. Donne - a London poet; the shooting of the bears - poetry and politics in Andrew Marvell; the end of the big names - Milton's epic catalogues; rochester - the sense of nothing; Tibbles - a new life of Pope; Keats - somebody reading; Browning versions; the new style of "Sweeney Agonistes"; Auden askew; Philip Larkin - after symbolism; Larkin's Edens; poetry and soda.
