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Scanning the CenturyThe Penguin Book of the Twentieth Century in Poetry: Penguin History of the 20th Century in Poetry
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As this anthology demonstrates, the poetry of the last hundred years has been both a mirror and a gloss to the age. Drawing on poetry written in English and in translation, Peter Forbes's aim has been to capture this century's flavour 'with something like the tang of newsreel and the zest of popular song'. There are thirty-nine sections, which run the gamut of moods from the deadly serious to the playful: from 'Omens' (Cavafy, Hardy, Kipling) to 'The Jazz Age' (Mayakovsky, Eliot, Langston Hughes), from 'The Holocaust' (Auden, Rumens, Milosz) to 'The Sixties' (Edwin Morgan, Bob Dylan, Lennon and McCartney), from 'Work' (Craig Raine, Wendy Cope, Simon Armitage), to 'Love and Sex' (Larkin, Fleur Adcock, Thom Gunn). W. H. Auden and Louis MacNeice are the presiding spirits of the book, but there is plenty of room too for completely different voices, whether the surrealism of Apollinaire, the beat of Allen Ginsberg, the lamentations of Paul Celan or the gentle wistfulness of John Betjeman.
Author: Peter Forbes (all their books in stock)
Format: Hardback
Published: 1999
Pages: 640
Publisher: Penguin Uk
ISBN: 9780670880119
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