Curtain Call by Hugo Williams
The art of portraiture in poetry is traceable from the Latin poets and Chaucer via Goldsmith, Wordsworth and Browning, to the modern era of Rimbaud, Cavafy, Auden, Lowell and Hofmann.Poetry is an art form which encourages introspection, so it is a welcome break to find these poets looking outward, fondly or otherwise, in homage or in satire, at their fellow performers on the human stage. Here, you may find yourself rubbing shoulders with the likes of Elvis Presley, Oscar Wilde, and the Duke of Buckingham, or buttonholed by intriguing gatecrashers. Who is Butch Weldy, for instance? And what did become of Waring?
Hugo Williams was born in 1942 and grew up in Sussex. He worked on the London Magazine from 1961 to 1970, since when he has earned his living as a journalist and travel writer. He has been TV critic on the New Statesman, theatre critic on the Sunday Correspondent and film critic for Harper's & Queen. He writes the 'Freelance' column in the Times Literary Supplement and lives in London.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780571207237 |
| ISBN 10 | 0571207235 |
| Title | Curtain Call |
| Author | Hugo Williams |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Faber & Faber |
| Year published | 2001-11-05 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
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