Singing school : the making of a poet / Jon Stallworthy
1998, First Edition. London : John Murray. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. SIGNED by the author.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 246 pages; Physical desc. : x, 246 p. : ill, facsims, ports ; 23 cm. Subjects: Stallworthy, Jon. Poets, English - 20th century - Biography. Oxfordshire (England) - Biography. 20th century English poetry - biography. Contents: Genealogy; mythology and history; Latin; metrics; Dinnschenchas (place-name lore); public performance; Irish manuscripts; afterword. Summary: Jon Stallworthy, poet and prize-winning biographer, has long been concerned with how poems and poets are made, and in this work he turns the focus on his own personal selves, such as the seven-year-old boy, the National Service Legionary and the graduate student in Dublin. Item #177641
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