Selected Poems
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Selected Poems

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eBook - ePub

Selected Poems

About this book

C.H. Sisson called John Heath-Stubbs "... a Johnsonian presence with a Miltonic disability"—a reference to the poet's blindness. This selection of an abundant poet restores him to a new readership with the work on which his popularity was based. His ground-breaking early poetry is given its due, especially the major long poem "Wounded Thammuz, " printed here in its entirety. Heath-Stubbs was at the centre of the New Romantic school. The Second World War left him as almost the sole representative of one stream of English poetry. He remains crucial to the 1940s and '50s, and was a popular presence into the 1980s, composing his later poems in his head and reciting from memory. Too long he has been sidelined by shifts of critical fashion. Selected Poems includes a critical preface by John Clegg who essentialises and celebrates the work. Three of Heath-Stubbs' translations of Leopardi—revered by subsequent translators, and long out of print—are included.

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Information

Publisher
Carcanet Classics
Year
2019
Print ISBN
9781784106478
eBook ISBN
9781784106485
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
European Poetry
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedicatory Poem
  4. Contents
  5. Preface
  6. Selected Poems
  7. From Eight Oxford Poets (1941)
  8. Wounded Thammuz (1942)
  9. From Beauty and the Beast (1945)
  10. From The Divided Ways (1946)
  11. From A Charm Against the Toothache (1954)
  12. From The Triumph of the Muse (1958)
  13. From The Blue-Fly in his Head (1959)
  14. From Selected Poems (1965)
  15. From The Watchman’s Flute (1978)
  16. From Birds Reconvened (1980)
  17. From Naming the Beasts (1982)
  18. From The Immolation of Aleph (1985)
  19. From Collected Poems (1988)
  20. From The Game of Love and Death (1990)
  21. From Sweetapple Earth (1993)
  22. From Galileo’s Salad (1996)
  23. From The Sound of Light (1999)
  24. From The Return of the Cranes (2002)
  25. From Pigs Might Fly (2006)
  26. Three Translations from Giacomo Leopardi (1946)
  27. Index of Titles and First Lines
  28. About the Author
  29. By the Same Author
  30. Copyright