Poetry in Exile: A Study of the Poetry of W.H. Auden, Joseph Brodsky & George Szirtes

A study of the poetry of W.H Auden, Joseph Brodsky & George Szirtes.

"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 0'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.

ISBN:978-1871551761

260 pages