Nearly Too Much: The Poetry of J. H. Prynne

by Richard Kerridge and N.H. Reeve

Book Overview

This is the first book-length study of the work of J. H. Prynne, who has been described by Peter Ackroyd as without doubt the most formidable and accomplished poet in England today, a writer who has single-handedly changed the vocabulary of expression'. The book sets out to introduce Prynne's poetry to a larger audience than it has hitherto received and the authors examine the work in relation to traditions of Romanticism and Modernism, recent theory,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0853238502
• ISBN13: 9780853238508
• Release Date: March 1996
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 196 Pages