Poets in Their Time: Essays on English Poetry from Donne to Larkin

by Barbara Everett

Widely regarded as one of England's most sensitive readers of poetry, Barbara Everett here examines the poetry of Donne, Milton, Marvell, Rochester, Pope, Keats, Browning, Eliot, Auden, and Philip Larkin. The implicit argument of these essays is designed to show the way each poet remains anindividual--idiosyncratic, odd, rich--while interacting with the conditions of a particular historical context. To this difficult task Everett brings an extraordinary...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0571139787
• ISBN13: 9780571139781
• Release Date: January 1986
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.