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Oxford Book Of Verse 1945-1980
The ''Oxford Book of Contemporary Verse'', edited by D. J. Enright, is a poetry anthology from 1980, published by Oxford University Press. It might be considered one of the "last words" from a founder-member of The Movement, with its comments in the Introduction still in an anti-romantic vein, and that "the editor remains unpersuaded that wit is necessarily evasive in some shabby way or emotionally lowering". It was reissued in 1995 under the title ''Oxford Book of Verse 1945–1980'' (). Poets in the ''Oxford Book of Contemporary Verse'' * Dannie Abse * Kingsley Amis *James K. Baxter * Patricia Beer * John Berryman * Earle Birney *Elizabeth Bishop * George Mackay Brown * Charles Causley * Robert Conquest *Donald Davie * Douglas Dunn *D. J. Enright * Gavin Ewart *Roy Fuller * Thom Gunn * Seamus Heaney * John Heath-Stubbs * Anthony Hecht * Geoffrey Hill *A. D. Hope * Ted Hughes * Randall Jarrell * Philip Larkin *Robert Lowell *Norman MacCaig * Derek Mahon * Howard Nemerov * Peter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oxford Book Of Contemporary Verse
The ''Oxford Book of Contemporary Verse'', edited by D. J. Enright, is a poetry anthology from 1980, published by Oxford University Press. It might be considered one of the "last words" from a founder-member of The Movement, with its comments in the Introduction still in an anti-romantic vein, and that "the editor remains unpersuaded that wit is necessarily evasive in some shabby way or emotionally lowering". It was reissued in 1995 under the title ''Oxford Book of Verse 1945–1980'' (). Poets in the ''Oxford Book of Contemporary Verse'' * Dannie Abse * Kingsley Amis *James K. Baxter *Patricia Beer *John Berryman *Earle Birney *Elizabeth Bishop * George Mackay Brown * Charles Causley * Robert Conquest *Donald Davie * Douglas Dunn *D. J. Enright * Gavin Ewart *Roy Fuller *Thom Gunn * Seamus Heaney * John Heath-Stubbs * Anthony Hecht * Geoffrey Hill *A. D. Hope * Ted Hughes * Randall Jarrell * Philip Larkin *Robert Lowell *Norman MacCaig *Derek Mahon * Howard Nemerov * Peter Port ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gavin Ewart
Gavin Buchanan Ewart FRSL (4 February 1916 – 23 October 1995) was a British poet who contributed to Geoffrey Grigson's ''New Verse'' at the age of seventeen. Life Ewart was born in London and educated at Wellington College, before entering Christ's College, Cambridge, where he received a B.A. in 1937 and an M.A. in 1942. After active service as a Royal Artillery officer during World War II, he worked in publishing and with the British Council before becoming an advertising copywriter in 1952. He lived at Kenilworth Court in Putney, London, and a blue plaque at Kenilworth Court commemorates this. Poetry From the age of 17, when his poetry was first printed in Geoffrey Grigson's ''New Verse'', Ewart acquired a reputation for wit and accomplishment through such works as "Phallus in Wonderland", and ''Poems and Songs'', which appeared in 1939 and was his first collection. The Second World War disrupted his development as a poet, however, and he published no further volumes unt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Howard Nemerov
Howard Nemerov (March 1, 1920 – July 5, 1991) was an American poet. He was twice Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, from 1963 to 1964 and again from 1988 to 1990. For ''The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov'' (1977), he won the National Book Award for Poetry,"National Book Awards – 1978" . Retrieved 2012-04-07. (With acceptance speech by Nemerov and essay by Ross Gay from the Awards 60-year anniversary blog.) , [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Derek Mahon
Derek Mahon (23 November 1941 – 1 October 2020) was an Irish poet. He was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland but lived in a number of cities around the world. At his death it was noted that his, "influence in the Irish poetry community, literary world and society at large, and his legacy, is immense". President of Ireland Michael D Higgins said of Mahon; "he shared with his northern peers the capacity to link the classical and the contemporary but he brought also an edge that was unsparing of cruelty and wickedness." Biography Derek Mahon was born on 23 November 1941 as the only child of Ulster Protestant working-class parents. His father and grandfather worked at Harland and Wolff while his mother worked at a local flax mill. During his childhood, he claims he was something of a solitary dreamer, comfortable with his own company yet aware of the world around him. Interested in literature from an early age, he attended Skegoneill Primary school and then the Royal Belfast Aca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norman MacCaig
Norman Alexander MacCaig DLitt (14 November 1910 – 23 January 1996) was a Scottish poet and teacher. His poetry, in modern English, is known for its humour, simplicity of language and great popularity. Life Norman Alexander MacCaig was born at 15 East London Street, Edinburgh, to Robert McCaig (1880–1950?), a chemist from Dumfriesshire, and Joan née MacLeod (1879–1959), from Scalpay in the Outer Hebrides. He was their fourth child and only son. He attended the Royal High School and in 1928 went to the University of Edinburgh, graduating in 1932 with a degree in classics. He divided his time, for the rest of his life, between his native city and Assynt in the Scottish Highlands. During the Second World War MacCaig registered as a conscientious objector, a move that many at the time criticised. Douglas Dunn has suggested that MacCaig's career later suffered as a result of his outspoken pacifism, although there is no evidence of this. For the early part of his working ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
