Beyond the Lyric by Fiona Sampson

Beyond the Lyric by Fiona Sampson

This is a book of enthusiasms: an intelligent and witty map of contemporary British poetry and a radical, accessible guide to living British poets, grouped for the first time according to the kind of poetry they write.

Few are as well qualified to do this as Sampson… Sampson is a thorough and often persuasive close reader -- Tom Payne * Daily Telegraph *
This lovely, hopeful book is a celebration of the richness and variety in British Poetry right now -- Lesley McDowell * Glasgow Herald *
Vigorous and valuable..the best kind of guide: encouraging, enthusiastic, knowledgeable -- Alan Brownjohn * Spectator *
This is an engaging, well-structured take on the poetry world, one that invites readers to read more, and to read carefully * Independent *

Fiona Sampson MBE FRSL is a leading British poet, writer, and Romanticist. Professor Emerita of Poetry at the University of Roehampton and Senior Research Fellow at Harris Manchester College, University of Oxford, she has received numerous national and international literary awards, and her work has been published in thirty-eight languages.


Becoming George completes a trilogy of acclaimed biographies. In Search of Mary Shelley was an Observer, Independent, Financial Times, and Times Book of the Year. Two-Way Mirror was a Washington Post Book of the Year, a New York Times bestseller, and a finalist for the Plutarch Prize and the US PEN’s Jacqueline Bograd Weld International Award for Biography.

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ISBN 13	9780701186463
ISBN 10	0701186461
Title	Beyond the Lyric
Author	Fiona Sampson
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Vintage Publishing
Year published	2012-09-06
Number of pages	320
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