Poets on PoetsNick Rennison, Michael Schmidt To mark National Poetry, Day Nick Rennison, who compiled the Waterstone's Guide to Poetry, and Michael Schmidt, editorial director of Carcanet, invited a number of contemporary poets to select work by poets of the past, beginning in the late fourteenth century and ending in the early twentieth, and to provide brief headnotes to describe their choices. The result is an anthology with a difference. From Gower to Yeats, from the old and the new worlds, the selectors and the selected converge in a volume of wonderful poetry and rich surprise. Providing more than 450 pages of poetry and commentary in a handsome large two-column format, Poets on Poets celebrates vital continuities: the range of poets making selections and the range of poetry selected is without precedent in an English-language poetry anthology. Its aim is to encourage a wider readership of classic English poetry and to signal the generative connection between new poetry and the best of the past. |
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... Born in 1953 in Maryville , Tennessee . He teaches at the University of Iowa Writers ' Workshop , and lives in Prov- incetown , Massachusetts . His books include two poetry collections : My Alox- andria ( 1995 ) and Atlantis ( 1996 ) ...
... Born in 1953 in Maryville , Tennessee . He teaches at the University of Iowa Writers ' Workshop , and lives in Prov- incetown , Massachusetts . His books include two poetry collections : My Alox- andria ( 1995 ) and Atlantis ( 1996 ) ...
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... Born in Cincinnati , Ohio in 1925. He teaches at Columbia University in New York and has published many collec- tions of poetry , a representative selec- tion from which was published in Great Britain in 1991 , Selected Poems , followed ...
... Born in Cincinnati , Ohio in 1925. He teaches at Columbia University in New York and has published many collec- tions of poetry , a representative selec- tion from which was published in Great Britain in 1991 , Selected Poems , followed ...
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... Born in South Africa in 1912. He lives in Southampton , where he was Profes- sor of English at the University 1957-74 . His first collection was published in 1938 , and his Collected Poems 1935-1992 appeared in 1993 . KATHLEEN RAINE Born ...
... Born in South Africa in 1912. He lives in Southampton , where he was Profes- sor of English at the University 1957-74 . His first collection was published in 1938 , and his Collected Poems 1935-1992 appeared in 1993 . KATHLEEN RAINE Born ...
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