Catching Life by the Throat: Poems from Eight Great Poets [With CD]

by Josephine Hart

Book Overview

Catching Life by the Throat unites the sound, sense, and sensibility that lie at the heart of great poetry. It features eight great poets, with brief, accessible essays concerning their life and work and a selection of their poems, and it is accompanied by an 80-minute CD recorded live at the British Library: Ralph Fiennes reading Auden, Edward Fox reading Eliot, Roger Moore reading Kipling, Harold Pinter reading Larkin, and more. Whether you believe...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 039306607X
• ISBN13: 9780393066074
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 8.6"