Description
A wide-ranging collection of essays, reviews, and occasional pieces spanning nearly three decades, this volume showcases a celebrated poet’s sharp intelligence beyond verse. Its subjects include poetry, fiction, literary culture, and the arts, approached with characteristic wit, precision, skepticism, and an acute eye for human behavior. Alongside trenchant judgments of fellow writers, the pieces reveal broad sympathies and a deep engagement with the cultural life of postwar Britain and Europe. Elegant, concise, and often quietly provocative, the collection offers an illuminating portrait of a major literary mind at work.
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paperback
Faber and Faber
Published May 6, 2002
315 pages
ISBN: 9780571131204
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First Published
1983
Language
eng
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