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Zusatztext it opens with a new sonnet of his! ends with verse by Bernard O'Donoghue and Desmond Graham! and fills the 200 pages between with memoirs and admiring essays. Informationen zum Autor Sandie Byrne is Lecturer in English at Balliol College, Oxford. Klappentext This book, published to commemorate the sixtieth birth of Harrison, called "our best English poet," contains essays, reminiscences, and critical studies by such luminaries as Melvyn Bragg and Richard Eyre. Zusammenfassung This work celebrates the poet and playwright Tony Harrison's 60th birthday through an exploration of his work, including his best-known poem "V". It includes essays from Melvyn Bragg and Richard Eyre, as well as personal recollections and reponses to his poems. Inhaltsverzeichnis Abbreviations Foreword Introduction: Tony Harrison's Public Poetry 1: Desmond Graham: The Best Poet of 1961 2: Richard Eyre: Tony Harrison the Playwright 3: Melvyn Bragg: v. by Tony Harrison, or Production No. 73095, LWT Arts 4: Sandie Byrne: On Not Being Milton, Marvell, or Gray 5: Jem Poster: Open to Experience: Structure and Exploration in Tony Harrison's Poetry 6: Christopher Butler: Culture and Debate 7: N. S. Thompson: Book Ends: Harrison's Public and Private Poetry 8: Alan Rusbridger: Tony Harrison and the Guardian 9: Rick Rylance: Doomsongs: Tony Harrison and War 10: Martyn Crucefix: The Drunken Porter Does Poetry: Metre and Voice in the Poems of Tony Harrison 11: Oliver Taplin: The Chorus of Mams 12: Jonathan Silver: Poetry or Bust: Tony Harrison and Salt's Mill 13: Peter Forbes: In the Canon's Mouth: Tony Harrison and Twentieth-Century Poetry 14: Bernard O'Donoghue: `Command of English' 15: Desmond Graham: `Pericles in Tynemouth' Notes Contributors Select Bibliography Index
