The Music of Time: Poetry in the Twentieth Century

by John Burnside

Book Overview

A revelatory and deeply personal history of twentieth-century poetry by prize-winning poet and memoirist John Burnside

Poetry helps us to make sense of our world, transforming what the Russian poet Osip Mandelstam called the "noise of time" into a kind of music. The Music of Time is a unique history of twentieth-century poetry by one of today's most acclaimed poets, blending incandescent personal meditations with rare insights...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691201552
• ISBN13: 9780691201559
• Release Date: January 2020
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 520 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.6" x 9.5"