The Faber Book of Vernacular Verse
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The Faber Book of Vernacular Verse by Tom Paulin
In this anthology, Tom Paulin aims to represent the extended family of vernacular poets and to show how Christina Rosetti, Hopkins, Whitman and other poets have drawn on the energies of popular speech such as children's chants, nursery rhymes, weather-saws and anonymous ballads in order to break with the tradition of liquid diction. Vernacular poetry is wild, anarchistic and sensuous as opposed to the plummy hegemony of full vowels.
TOM PAULIN was born in Leeds in 1949 but brought up in Belfast. He taught English at Nottingham University from 1972-1994. His many books of poetry range from A State of Justice in 1977, which won the Somerset Maugham Award, to The Wind Dog in 1999, shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize. He also writes non-fiction and plays, including The Riot Act: A Version of Sophocles' Antigone (1984). He lives in Oxford.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780571144709 |
| ISBN 10 | 0571144705 |
| Title | The Faber Book of Vernacular Verse |
| Author | Tom Paulin |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Faber & Faber |
| Year published | 1990-11-05 |
| Number of pages | 512 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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