Voyages over Voices - Critical Essays on Anne Stevenson

Informationen zum Autor Angela Leighton is Senior Research Fellow at Trinity College. Her most recent books are On Form: Poetry, Aestheticism, and the Legacy of a Word, OUP, 2007 and Sea Level, (poems), Shoestring Press, 2007. Klappentext "Voyages over Voices" is the first book-length critical exploration of the work of internationally acclaimed American-British poet Anne Stevenson! who has long been regarded as one of the most important contemporary poets on either side of the Atlantic. Bringing together a distinguished list of contributors--including Jay Parini! Carol Rumens! Tim Kendall! and John Lucas--Angela Leighton provides an invaluable contribution to understanding Stevenson's large body of work. "Anne Stevenson is as big and as great a poet as Plath or Bishop. . . . Leighton's richly rewarding collection makes a significant and invaluable contribution to our knowledge of her work."--Andrew McNeillie! University of Exeter Zusammenfassung A past winner of the The Poetry Foundation's Neglected Masters Award! the Lannan Lifetime Achievement Award for Poetry and the Northern Rock Foundation Writer's Award! Stevenson has long been admired by poets and critics alike as one of the most important contemporary poets on either side of the Atlantic.

Product details

• Authors: Angela Leighton, Angela (EDT) Leighton
• Assisted by: Angela Leighton (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 15.12.2010, delayed
• EAN: 9781846314841
• ISBN: 978-1-84631-484-1
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Liverpool English Texts and Studies; Liverpool English Texts and St; Liverpool English Texts and Studies; Liverpool English Texts and St
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies