Selected Poems

by George Barker

T. S. Eliot spoke of his 'genius'; in 1935 W. B. Yeats wrote to him, 'I like you better than I like anybody else in the new generation.' This selection draws on six decades of writing, twenty volumes of verse, and illustrates the remarkable diversity of Barker's talent. Skilled in both traditional and in freer forms, ranging in theme from the theology of guilt to the continuing possibilities of innocence, in mood from the frivolous to the sublime,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0571172857
• ISBN13: 9780571172856
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.0" x 7.7"