Poets in their time : essays on English poetry from Donne to Larkin
London ; Boston : Faber and Faber, 1986. First Edition. Near fine cloth copy in a near fine if slightly sun-toned dust-wrapper. Not price-clipped. Remains well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Notes; The presentation copy from Alan Hollinghurst (deputy editor, Times Literary Supplement) to Peter Porter OAM, signed with loose notes by Porter and additional ephemera. Item #462531
ISBN: 0571139787
Physical description; viii, 264 pages ; 22 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents: Donne: a London poet — The shooting of the bears: poetry and politics in Andrew Marvell — The end of the big names: Milton's epic catalogues — Rochester: the sense of nothing — Tibbles: a new life of Pope — Keats: somebody reading — Browning versions — The new style of Sweeney Agonistes — Auden Askew — Philip Larkin: after symbolism — Larkin's Edens — Poetry and soda. Subjects; English poetry History and criticism.
Price: €195.00