The Life of Metrical and Free Verse in Twentieth-Century Poetry by Jon Silkin

The Life of Metrical and Free Verse in Twentieth-Century Poetry by Jon Silkin

In a wide-ranging and compelling account of the life of metrical and free verse in the twentieth century, poet and critic Jon Silkin deepens our understanding of the way poetry works on us. He begins from the premiss that two modes of verse, free and metrical, engage the creative energies of poetry now, creating a rich, fertile environment capable of yielding work valuable to poetry itself and to the society which has given it life. With a practitioner's empathy Silkin reads the poetry of Whitman, Hopkins, Eliot, Pound, Lawrence, Dylan Thomas, Bunting and eight British poets from the post-second World War period to illustrate how free and metrical verse create, separately or together, a poetic harmony. Additionally, he includes crucial statements on modern poetry from poets themselves, concluding with a fine memoir of Basil Bunting by Connie Pickard, published in book-form for the first time.

Jon Silkin was a Gregory Fellow in Poetry at the University of Leeds. He founded Stand magazine in 1952 and the Northern House Press in 1965. His publications included nine volumes of poetry and many critical works and anthologies. He held writing fellowships and chairs in the United States, Australia, and Japan. Jon Glover is the managing editor of Stand magazine and is a research professor at the University of Bolton. He is the author of two books of poetry, Glass Is Elastic and Magnetic Resonance Imaging, and edited The Penguin Book of First World War Prose with Jon Silkin. Kathryn Jenner has worked as an archivist at the University of Leeds's Brotherton Library, where she catalogued the Jon Silkin archive and the poetry and notebooks of Geoffrey Hill.

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ISBN 13	9780333593219
ISBN 10	0333593219
Title	The Life of Metrical and Free Verse in Twentieth-Century Poetry
Author	Jon Silkin
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Year published	1997-02-07
Number of pages	423
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