LEADER 03220nam 22005052 450 001 9910782250903321 005 20170816094244.0 010 $a1-78694-539-8 010 $a1-84631-371-6 035 $a(CKB)1000000000541199 035 $a(EBL)380692 035 $a(OCoLC)476209677 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000071170 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11107164 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000071170 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10071561 035 $a(PQKB)10460752 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9781846313714 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001992851 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC380692 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000541199 100 $a20170307d1999|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aPassionate intellect $ethe poetry of Charles Tomlinson /$fMichael Kirkham$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aLiverpool :$cLiverpool University Press,$d1999. 215 $a1 online resource (333 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 225 1 $aLiverpool English texts and studies 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 11 Aug 2017). 311 $a0-85323-543-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aTitle 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 330 $aThis critical study looks at the first four decades of Charles Tomlinson's poetic career, and is the only published full-scale, exclusive treatment of his poetry. Tomlinson is a major British poet whose work has received more recognition in North America and continental Europe than it has in his own country, where still, in some quarters, its character is misunderstood and therefore misjudged. The purpose of Kirkham's study is to increase understanding and appreciation of the exceptional achievement of Tomlinson's poetry, emphasising both the startling originality of his vision - a unified vision of a natural-human world - and the subtlety of his poetic art. The study is a reading of the poems which aims to show what they yield to close scrutiny and to remove misconceptions. Known for its analytical rendering of sense-impressions and its avoidance of the personal pronoun, the objectivism of Tomlinson's poetry is not an exercise in asceticism, but a means of enlarging the circumference of the perceiving self, an expansion of self which is not at the same time an inflation of the self-regarding ego. Its theme is not objects as such but relations, the relation of the perceiving self to the other, of the human to the non-human world. Its reputation for cool detachment is based on a misreading: it is a poetry of energy and excitement, which combines self-restraint with passionate conviction. 410 0$aLiverpool English texts and studies. 676 $a821/.914 700 $aKirkham$b Michael$01484521 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910782250903321 996 $aPassionate intellect$93703200 997 $aUNINA