Author: Michael Roberts
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780571253814
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
First published in February 1936, just under a year from when the idea for it was first discussed, this is one of the most important and influential anthologies of the twentieth century. Since then three further editions by, in succession, Anne Ridler, Donald Hall and Peter Porter have been published. All took as their kernel the original selection by Michael Roberts. This "Faber Finds" reissue restores that pristine selection. More likely than not, the original idea was T. S. Eliot's, the choice of editor was undoubtedly his, and it was an inspired one. Michael Roberts was a poet himself, and a good one, but more important for this task was his acute awareness of the poetry scene, and his sense of the modern movement within it. Yes, his purpose was tendentious. He excludes some poets he admires such as Edmund Blunden and Walter de la Mare because (they) 'seem to me to have written good poems without having been compelled to make any notable development of poetic technique.' On the other hand, 'I have included only poems which seem to me to add to the resources of poetry, to be likely to influence the future development of poetry and language . . .' From the very start (and could there be a more arresting one?) with Gerard Manley Hopkins' "The Wreck of the Deutschland" Michael Roberts powerfully and consistently fulfils that aim. Philip Hobsbaum, in "The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry," says of "The Faber Book of Modern Verse," 'it also encapsulates, as no other literary document quite does, the innovative quality of the 1930s.'
The Faber Book of Modern Verse
Author: Michael Roberts
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780571253814
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
First published in February 1936, just under a year from when the idea for it was first discussed, this is one of the most important and influential anthologies of the twentieth century. Since then three further editions by, in succession, Anne Ridler, Donald Hall and Peter Porter have been published. All took as their kernel the original selection by Michael Roberts. This "Faber Finds" reissue restores that pristine selection. More likely than not, the original idea was T. S. Eliot's, the choice of editor was undoubtedly his, and it was an inspired one. Michael Roberts was a poet himself, and a good one, but more important for this task was his acute awareness of the poetry scene, and his sense of the modern movement within it. Yes, his purpose was tendentious. He excludes some poets he admires such as Edmund Blunden and Walter de la Mare because (they) 'seem to me to have written good poems without having been compelled to make any notable development of poetic technique.' On the other hand, 'I have included only poems which seem to me to add to the resources of poetry, to be likely to influence the future development of poetry and language . . .' From the very start (and could there be a more arresting one?) with Gerard Manley Hopkins' "The Wreck of the Deutschland" Michael Roberts powerfully and consistently fulfils that aim. Philip Hobsbaum, in "The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry," says of "The Faber Book of Modern Verse," 'it also encapsulates, as no other literary document quite does, the innovative quality of the 1930s.'
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780571253814
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
First published in February 1936, just under a year from when the idea for it was first discussed, this is one of the most important and influential anthologies of the twentieth century. Since then three further editions by, in succession, Anne Ridler, Donald Hall and Peter Porter have been published. All took as their kernel the original selection by Michael Roberts. This "Faber Finds" reissue restores that pristine selection. More likely than not, the original idea was T. S. Eliot's, the choice of editor was undoubtedly his, and it was an inspired one. Michael Roberts was a poet himself, and a good one, but more important for this task was his acute awareness of the poetry scene, and his sense of the modern movement within it. Yes, his purpose was tendentious. He excludes some poets he admires such as Edmund Blunden and Walter de la Mare because (they) 'seem to me to have written good poems without having been compelled to make any notable development of poetic technique.' On the other hand, 'I have included only poems which seem to me to add to the resources of poetry, to be likely to influence the future development of poetry and language . . .' From the very start (and could there be a more arresting one?) with Gerard Manley Hopkins' "The Wreck of the Deutschland" Michael Roberts powerfully and consistently fulfils that aim. Philip Hobsbaum, in "The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry," says of "The Faber Book of Modern Verse," 'it also encapsulates, as no other literary document quite does, the innovative quality of the 1930s.'
The Faber Book of Modern Verse
Author: Michael Roberts
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
The Faber Book of Modern Verse
Author: Michael Roberts
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
The Faber Book of Modern Verse
Author: Michael Roberts
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780571180172
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780571180172
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Faber Book of Modern Verse
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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The Faber Book of Irish Verse
Author: John Montague
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780571112180
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780571112180
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
The Faber Book of Modern Verse
Author: Michael Roberts
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
The Faber Book of Modern Verse
Author: Michael Roberts
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry, Modern
Languages : en
Pages :
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry, Modern
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Faber Book of Modern Verse. Ed. by Michael Roberts. 3. Ed. Rev. by Donald Hall. (Repr.).
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780571063482
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780571063482
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Modern Yiddish Verse
Author: Irving Howe
Publisher: Viking Adult
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 756
Book Description
A gift dedicated to Leonard Bernstein on his 70th birthday (1988). It was signed by the artist, Yossi Stern, and by Teddy Kollek. In addition to the numerous line drawings illustrating the poetry, Stern crafted an original book cover with a colorful drawing of a wedding scene.
Publisher: Viking Adult
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 756
Book Description
A gift dedicated to Leonard Bernstein on his 70th birthday (1988). It was signed by the artist, Yossi Stern, and by Teddy Kollek. In addition to the numerous line drawings illustrating the poetry, Stern crafted an original book cover with a colorful drawing of a wedding scene.