Twentieth Century Poetry: Selves and Situations by Robinson, Peter

First printing. Volume, measuring approximately 6" x 9", is bound in black cloth, with stamped gilt lettering to spine. Minor loss appears at top of front flyleaf. Book is otherwise in fine condition, with firm binding, clean and bright pages. Dust jacket displays very light shelfwear. vi/287 pages.
"Peter Robinson's third book of literary criticism is a sequence of chapters exploring ways that selves and situations will interact and become imaginatively identified in poems. Readings of works by Ezra Pound, Basil Bunting, Louis MacNeice, W. S. Graham, Elizabeth Bishop, Allen Curnow, Charles Tomlinson, Mairi MacInnes, Tom Raworth, and Roy Fisher demonstrate how poems can be both attached to, and detached from the culture, society, and conditions in which they were written. These closely detailed studies draw out and underline both the ubiquity and elusiveness of the self in the situation of the text. The poems are also revealed to be focal points for relations between readerly and writerly selves and… Read More

Oxford University Press, 2005. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,550grams, ISBN:0199273251

Oxford University Press, 2005. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,550grams, ISBN:0199273251

OUP Oxford, 2005-03-01. Hardcover. New. 2.3858 cent in x 21.5736 cent in x 14.1878 cent in.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

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