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An Introduction to English Poetry

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Availability:In StockContributor:James FentonPublish date:2004-04-01Pages:137
Language:EnglishPublisher:Farrar, Straus and GirouxISBN-13:9780374528898ISBN-10:374528896UPC:9780374528898Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:EuropeanBook Topic:English, Irish, Scottish, WelshSize:8.40 x 5.40 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.4497Product ID:SCPVBTVE8B

An Introduction to English Poetry

A wise, absorbing, and surprising introduction to poetry written in English, from one of England's leading poets

James Fenton is that rare scholar "not ashamed to admit that he mostly reads for pleasure" (Charles Simic, The New York Review of Books). In this eminently readable guide to his abiding passion, he has distilled the essense of a library's--and a lifetime's--worth of delight.

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Language:EnglishPublisher:Farrar, Straus and GirouxISBN-13:9780374528898ISBN-10:374528896UPC:9780374528898Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:EuropeanBook Topic:English, Irish, Scottish, WelshSize:8.40 x 5.40 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.4497Product ID:SCPVBTVE8B

James Fenton was Professor of Poetry at Oxford from 1994 to 1999. His most recent works on gardening, A Garden from a Hundred Packets of Seed (FSG, 2002), of criticism, The Strength of Poetry, and of poetry, Out of Danger, are published by FSG.


Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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James Fenton

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