Complete Poems of ASA Briggs: Far Beyond the Pennine Way - Hardcover

Briggs, Asa

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0954207556 ISBN 13: 9780954207557

Verlag: Edward Everett Root, 2016

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Críticas:

"'The traveller is me' declares Asa Briggs in the opening poem, signalling the poet's movement through time, space, perspective and language - a poetic odyssey until now kept secret. The concerns of politics and place, love, life and memory combine to make a very memorable collection, and the necessity of poetic expression for the artist is brought home most poignantly in a closing line: 'I need so much to write.'" Hannah Lowe, named by The Poetry Book Society as one of the 20 Next Generation Poets, and short-listed for the Forward, Aldeburgh First Collection Prize, and the Seamus Heaney First Collection Prize.;"Asa Briggs, most distinguished historian of our time, for the first time lays bare the most treasured emotions of his youth and later life, in carefully wrought poems that lace together universal concerns with some poignant reminders of an earlier age. From Keighley Grammar School onwards (where his school exercize book bore the marks of his first poems) the life of a remarkable man is here recounted with diligence and grace in this unexpected, heartfelt collection. His poetic world encompasses Cambridge, Bletchley Park, Abyssinia, Guernica, Santa Barbara, Beijing, Shanghai ... before returning poet and reader to the North of England, the land of hope, expectation and memory, where he reflects anew on the great, underlying themes of time, identity and love - not only a collector's item but truly 'both a literary and a historic event'.Sue Roe, poet and biographer of Gwen John, of the Impressionists in Paris.;Dreams, gardens, imagistic clarity of a Chinese kind, an optimsitic faith, close and loving partnership, connections of the kind that have long characterised his abundant historical work." - Stephen Yeo, social historian and former Principal of Ruskin College, Oxford.;"The many-sided historian and public intellectual Asa Briggs turns out to have yet another side, secret until now: he is a poet!" --Professor Peter Burke, Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

Reseña del editor:

This is a book of 100 poems of great richness and variety. Indeed, it is genuinely a landmark book. It is an important literary and academic event in itself.
Professor Lord Asa Briggs is one of the most important historians of Britain. He is world-renowned for his work in social history, culture, and communications.

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• Verlag: Edward Everett Root
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0954207556
• ISBN 13: 9780954207557
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 172