Permanently Bard: Selected Poetry
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Author: Tony Harrison
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 176
In 1948, aged eleven, the baker's boy from Beeston took up a scholarship at Leeds Grammar School. So began the education that would put 'books, books, books' between Tony Harrison and his working-class background, books that turned him into a major poet and dramatist. This edition of Harrison's poetry has been selected for students. It shows the poet finding his voice, staking a claim to a seat in 'the school of eloquence', and talking with his predecessors - Milton, Keats, Lawrence. It shows the continual regeneration of his abiding concerns: language, class, education, and the ownership of culture; negotiations between the sexes; social preoccupations - grudges, rages and self-interrogation. Harrison's public voice is represented in a selection of his longer poems, and in extracts from his theatre poetry: The Oresteia, Medea: a sex-war opera, The Trackers of Oxyrhynchus, The Common Chorus, Square Rounds and Poetry or Bust. Carol Rutter's introduction and annotations are informative rather than interpretative. Her aim is to enable students to read Harrison's poems for themselves, using background material and textual glosses to support their findings, not to impose readings of her own.
Author: Tony Harrison
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 176
In 1948, aged eleven, the baker's boy from Beeston took up a scholarship at Leeds Grammar School. So began the education that would put 'books, books, books' between Tony Harrison and his working-class background, books that turned him into a major poet and dramatist. This edition of Harrison's poetry has been selected for students. It shows the poet finding his voice, staking a claim to a seat in 'the school of eloquence', and talking with his predecessors - Milton, Keats, Lawrence. It shows the continual regeneration of his abiding concerns: language, class, education, and the ownership of culture; negotiations between the sexes; social preoccupations - grudges, rages and self-interrogation. Harrison's public voice is represented in a selection of his longer poems, and in extracts from his theatre poetry: The Oresteia, Medea: a sex-war opera, The Trackers of Oxyrhynchus, The Common Chorus, Square Rounds and Poetry or Bust. Carol Rutter's introduction and annotations are informative rather than interpretative. Her aim is to enable students to read Harrison's poems for themselves, using background material and textual glosses to support their findings, not to impose readings of her own.
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NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand books is not always available. Please contact us if you have a question about this title.
Author: Tony Harrison
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 176
In 1948, aged eleven, the baker's boy from Beeston took up a scholarship at Leeds Grammar School. So began the education that would put 'books, books, books' between Tony Harrison and his working-class background, books that turned him into a major poet and dramatist. This edition of Harrison's poetry has been selected for students. It shows the poet finding his voice, staking a claim to a seat in 'the school of eloquence', and talking with his predecessors - Milton, Keats, Lawrence. It shows the continual regeneration of his abiding concerns: language, class, education, and the ownership of culture; negotiations between the sexes; social preoccupations - grudges, rages and self-interrogation. Harrison's public voice is represented in a selection of his longer poems, and in extracts from his theatre poetry: The Oresteia, Medea: a sex-war opera, The Trackers of Oxyrhynchus, The Common Chorus, Square Rounds and Poetry or Bust. Carol Rutter's introduction and annotations are informative rather than interpretative. Her aim is to enable students to read Harrison's poems for themselves, using background material and textual glosses to support their findings, not to impose readings of her own.
Author: Tony Harrison
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 176
In 1948, aged eleven, the baker's boy from Beeston took up a scholarship at Leeds Grammar School. So began the education that would put 'books, books, books' between Tony Harrison and his working-class background, books that turned him into a major poet and dramatist. This edition of Harrison's poetry has been selected for students. It shows the poet finding his voice, staking a claim to a seat in 'the school of eloquence', and talking with his predecessors - Milton, Keats, Lawrence. It shows the continual regeneration of his abiding concerns: language, class, education, and the ownership of culture; negotiations between the sexes; social preoccupations - grudges, rages and self-interrogation. Harrison's public voice is represented in a selection of his longer poems, and in extracts from his theatre poetry: The Oresteia, Medea: a sex-war opera, The Trackers of Oxyrhynchus, The Common Chorus, Square Rounds and Poetry or Bust. Carol Rutter's introduction and annotations are informative rather than interpretative. Her aim is to enable students to read Harrison's poems for themselves, using background material and textual glosses to support their findings, not to impose readings of her own.
Permanently Bard: Selected Poetry