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Starting to Explain: Essays on Twentieth Century British and Irish Poetry (2003) by John Lucas eBook

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Starting to Explain: Essays on Twentieth Century British and Irish Poetry brings together work produced over the past twenty years. It begins with a consideration of Hardy’s Wessex Poems and ends with an essay on contemporary anthropologies. In between some extended essays on poets D.H. Lawrence, Ivor Gurney, Edgell Rickword, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Roy Fuller, W.S. Graham, Philip Lark, Roy Fisher, Seamus Heaney, alongside more general pieces on such subjects as poetry and politics and jazz.

 

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 Starting to Explain: Essays on Twentieth Century British and Irish Poetry brings together work produced over the past twenty years by a critic whom Terry Eagleton described in The Independent On Sunday as possessing ‘a quick, erudite sense of English social history’, and whose writing on modern poets has been praised in the New Statesmen for its ‘alert commitment to the craft of poetry’.