Tony Harrison: Poet of Radical Classicism

by Edith Hall

Book Overview

This is the first book-length study of the classicism of Tony Harrison, one of the most important contemporary poets in England and the world. It argues that his unique and politically radical classicism is inextricable from his core notion that poetry should be a public property in which communal problems are shared and crystallised, and that the poet has a responsibility to speak in a public voice about collective and political concerns. Enriched...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350194581
• ISBN13: 9781350194588
• Release Date: September 2022
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"