Selected poems
Harrison, Tony , 1937-
Selected poems / Tony Harrison - 2nd ed - London : Penguin Books , c1987. - 249 p. ; 22 cm.
At last Americans may read one of England's foremost contemporary poets. Harrison's work derives its power from the conflict between his working class roots and classical education. His style is distinguished by a penchant for rhyme that at its best is dazzling but at times merely facile. His early work features globe-trotting travelogue and flamboyant satyriasis; his in-progress sonnet-cycle, ``From the School of Eloquence,'' is more substantial. In it he pays tribute to English working class history and his own upbringing, producing several elegiac pieces for his mother and father that form the most mature, serious, and persuasive segment of his work: ``I believe life ends with death, and that is all./ You haven't both gone shopping; just the same,/ in my new black leather phone book there's your name/ and the disconnected number I still call.''
0140586296
86031396
Poetry, English
PR6058.A6943 / A6 1987
821 HAR
Selected poems / Tony Harrison - 2nd ed - London : Penguin Books , c1987. - 249 p. ; 22 cm.
At last Americans may read one of England's foremost contemporary poets. Harrison's work derives its power from the conflict between his working class roots and classical education. His style is distinguished by a penchant for rhyme that at its best is dazzling but at times merely facile. His early work features globe-trotting travelogue and flamboyant satyriasis; his in-progress sonnet-cycle, ``From the School of Eloquence,'' is more substantial. In it he pays tribute to English working class history and his own upbringing, producing several elegiac pieces for his mother and father that form the most mature, serious, and persuasive segment of his work: ``I believe life ends with death, and that is all./ You haven't both gone shopping; just the same,/ in my new black leather phone book there's your name/ and the disconnected number I still call.''
0140586296
86031396
Poetry, English
PR6058.A6943 / A6 1987
821 HAR
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