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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453540303321

Autore

Kirkham Michael

Titolo

Passionate Intellect [[electronic resource] ] : The Poetry of Charles Tomlinson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Liverpool : , : Liverpool University Press, , 2019

ISBN

1-78694-539-8

1-84631-371-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (352 p.)

Collana

Liverpool English Texts and Studies, 31

Disciplina

821.914

821/.914

Soggetti

Tomlinson, Charles

English

Languages & Literatures

English Literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Title Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1: An Ethic of Perception; 2: One World; 3: Manscapes 1958-1966; 4: Manscapes 1969-1978; 5: A SavingGrace; 6: Art andMortality; Bibliography; Index of Proper Names andWorks

Sommario/riassunto

This critical study looks at the first four decades of Charles Tomlinson's poetic career, and is the only published full-scale, exclusive treatment of his poetry. Tomlinson is a major British poet whose work has received more recognition in North America and continental Europe than it has in his own country, where still, in some quarters, its character is misunderstood and therefore misjudged. The purpose of Kirkham's study is to increase understanding and appreciation of the exceptional achievement of Tomlinson's poetry, emphasising both the startling originality of his vision - a unified vis