The occasions of poetry : essays in criticism and autobiography / by Thom Gunn ; edited and with an introduction by Clive Wilmer
1982, First Edition. London : Faber. Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, somewhat edge-bumped and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Not price-clipped. Remains well-preserved overall. Item #470740
ISBN: 0571117333
Physical description; 188 p. ; 23 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references. Contents; Criticism: A new world, the poetry of William Carlos Williams; The early Snyder ; Fulke Greville ; Hardy and the ballads ; Ben Jonson ; Homosexuality in Robert Duncan's poetry ; New lineaments (Rod Taylor) ; Immersions (Dick Davis) ; A heroic enterprise (James Merrill) : Autobiography: Writing a poem ; My suburban muse ; Cambridge in the fifties ; My life up to now. Subjects; Gunn, Thom. Gunn, Thom ; Biography. Snyder, Gary 1930-. Williams, William Carlos 1883-1963. Greville, Fulke 1st Baron Brooke 1554-1628. Hardy, Thomas 1840-1928. Jonson, Ben 1573?-1637. Duncan, Robert. Taylor, Rod. Davis, Dick 1945-. Merrill, James 1926-1995. 1900-1999. Poets, English 20th century ; Biography. Poetry. English poetry History and criticism.
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