Selected Poems |
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Author:
| Fuller, Roy |
Editor:
| Fuller, John |
ISBN: | 978-1-84777-397-5 |
Publication Date: | Nov 2012 |
Publisher: | Carcanet Press, Limited
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Book Format: | Ebook |
List Price: | USD $9.99USD $9.99 |
Book Description:
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From his first wartime collection evoking a generation's experience of a country made strange by blackouts and air raids to the consolatory wisdom of poems written later in his life, Great Britain's Roy Fuller was a poet of the familiar and ordinary made extraordinary. Mundane details, observed with the author's tolerant humor and acute eye, reveal depths and dissonances from which a civilized life may be created. On the centenary of Fuller's birth, this generous selection--introduced...
More DescriptionFrom his first wartime collection evoking a generation's experience of a country made strange by blackouts and air raids to the consolatory wisdom of poems written later in his life, Great Britain's Roy Fuller was a poet of the familiar and ordinary made extraordinary. Mundane details, observed with the author's tolerant humor and acute eye, reveal depths and dissonances from which a civilized life may be created. On the centenary of Fuller's birth, this generous selection--introduced by the poet's son and including an afterword by Neil Powell, Fuller's biographer--brings to a new generation of readers the work of one of the essential poets of the 20th century.