Selected Poems 1972-1990

This collection of poems, from 1972 to 1990, is selected from "A State of Justice", "The Strange Museum", "Liberty Tree" and "Seize the Fire". This book also includes a verse translation of Sophocles's "Prometheus Unbound".

About the author

Tom Paulin was born in Leeds in 1949 but grew up in Belfast, and was educated at the universities of Hull and Oxford. He has published nine collections of poetry as well as a Selected Poems 1972-1990, two major anthologies, two versions of Greek drama, and several critical works, including The Day-Star of Liberty: William Hazlitt's Radical Style and, most recently, Crusoe's Secret: The Aesthetics of Dissent. His most recent collection of poems is Love's Bonfire (2012). Well known for his appearances on the BBC's Newsnight Review, he is also the G. M. Young Lecturer in English Literature at Hertford College, Oxford.

Summary

This collection of poems, from 1972 to 1990, is selected from "A State of Justice", "The Strange Museum", "Liberty Tree" and "Seize the Fire". This book also includes a verse translation of Sophocles's "Prometheus Unbound".

Product details

• Authors: Tom Paulin, Paulin Tom
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.04.1993
• EAN: 9780571149414
• ISBN: 978-0-571-14941-4
• No. of pages: 128
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 11 mm
• Weight: 140 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama > Poetry; POETRY / General, Poetry by individual poets, Poetry / poems by individual poets