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Poetry
in Exile
A study of the poetry of W.H. Auden, Joseph Brodsky &
George Szirtes
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Michael
Murphy |
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ISBN
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1-871551-76-5 |
£14.99 |
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Recommend this Book |
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| “Michael Murphy discriminates the forms of exile and
expatriation with the shrewdness of the cultural historian,
the acuity of the literary critic, and the subtlety of a poet
alert to the ways language and poetic form embody the precise
contours of experience. His accounts of Auden, Brodsky and Szirtes
not only cast much new light on the work of these complex and
rewarding poets, but are themselves a pleasure to read.” |
| - Stan Smith, Research Professor in Literary Studies, Nottingham
Trent University |
| “In this brilliant book Murphy strives to get at the
essence of ‘poetry in exile’ itself and to explain
how it is at the centre of the whole political and cultural
experience of the turbulent 20th century. His critical insight
makes it one of the most important recent books on poetry in
English.” |
| - Bernard O’Donoghue, Wadham College, Oxford |
| Michael Murphy is a poet and critic. Elsewhere, his first
full collection of poems, has been praised for being “urbane,
formally adroit, and at its best possessed of deep emotion”
(Peter Armstrong, Other Poetry). He has edited The Collected
George Garrett (Trent Editions) and is the author of James Joyce
in Greenwich Exchange's Student Guide series. Michael teaches
English Literature at Liverpool Hope University College. |
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