Great Modern Poets: The Best Poetry of Our Times

by Rudyard Kipling, Thomas Hardy, A.E. Housman, et al.

Book Overview

This is an introduction to the works of 50 greatest poets of our time. Each chapter contains an introductory quotation, an illustration, a biography, and an explanation of the key themes in their... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1848660006
• ISBN13: 9781848660007
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Quercus
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.

Customer Reviews

In A Time of Crystal Silence

This was my present this AM laid silently on a pillow next to a head lost in a wandering dream. Christmas morning. A gift of silent acknowledgment of the one thing money, time, hearts all seek, the expression of value in the symbolic word. A beautiful gift to a lonely wife. This was given as I fumble and ask...it was as noted here discounted, which would be a real shame since it's worth giving a pretty coin. But to review, yes, this is a volume, a slim one, of "modern" poets that are masters, Hughes, Plath, Yeats, Hardy, Cummings, Boland, O'Hara, Larkin, Lowell to cite a very few. Many remain unnamed, each with a page bio and a few selections of poems, good selections, obvious and less obvious examples of the reason the poem turned at their hand. Lovely for a purse, backpack, brief and the ritual of reading through breaks in a day, lovelier still if the day is presented up freed of tasking. It would be a wonderful gift, it was.

An Eloquent Introduction To Modern English Languge Poets

I purchased this book at a clearance price from a local bookstore. It seems that it's not getting the exposure or economic success that it deserves. It is an eloquent introduction to the work of great modern poets. Each poet is introduced with an insightful and succinct one page biographical essay by the editor, Michael Schmidt. These essays are near poetry, in and of themselves. There's also a full page black & white photograph that seems to reach deeply into the character of each poet. Even the photos are poetic in their insight. The selections of poems range from one, to about six, for each included poet. Without naming names, I can say that I'm familiar with the work of about half of the represented poets. Many of the others are familiar in name, but I've never read their works. There are several that I've never heard of, but I'm deeply impressed by all of them. I'm inspired to seek out more works of these poets, and perhaps that was the editors intent? Sadly, we live in a world where artists of our language live, work, and pass on in relative obscurity. But if you are someone who loves beautiful ideas, beautifully expressed, I think you'll have much to gain from time spent with this book.