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Selected poems / Tony Harrison

By:

Harrison, Tony, , 1937-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London : Penguin Books , c1987.Edition: 2nd edDescription: 249 p. ; 22 cmISBN:

0140586296

Uniform titles:

Poems. Selections.

Subject(s):

Poetry, English

DDC classification:

821 HAR

LOC classification:

PR6058.A6943 A6 1987

Summary: 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.''

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C.	821 HAR (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		021558

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.''

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