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The Poet's Calling

Robin Skelton

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Description:"ROBIN SKELTON was born in Yorkshire in 1925. He was educated at Leeds University and subsequently taught at Manchester University where he founded, with Tony Connor and Michael Snow, the Peterloo Group and then the Manchester ICA. In 1963 he went to Canada, where he is Professor of English at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, and co-editor of The Malahat Review. He is a prolific author, and has had published many volumes of his own poetry, as well as biographies, crítical works, children's books, symposia, and editions (including the general editorship of the Oxford edition of the works of J. M. Synge).What is it like to be a poet? Is he essentially different from other men? Is there a place for him in the modern world? Can he earn his living without compromising his poetic integrity or dulling his sensibility?Robin Skelton has admirable qualifications to answer these and similar questions both from his own experience and that of poets past and present. He is himself a prolific poet and critic who has lived and worked both in Britain and Canada. He quotes accounts by John Wain, Tony Connor, Richard Eberhardt, William Jay Smith, and others of the creative process as they have experienced it. There is also a fascinating set of work- sheets showing the evolution of poems by Robert Francis, Anne Sexton, James Baxter, Kingsley Amis, and Robert Graves.The Poet's Calling complements Robin Skelton's well- received earlier study, The Practice of Poetry."- PublisherWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Poet's Calling. To get started finding The Poet's Calling, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 232

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: London : Heinemann ; New York : Barnes & Noble

Release: 1975

ISBN: ZEgIAQAAIAAJ

Description: "ROBIN SKELTON was born in Yorkshire in 1925. He was educated at Leeds University and subsequently taught at Manchester University where he founded, with Tony Connor and Michael Snow, the Peterloo Group and then the Manchester ICA. In 1963 he went to Canada, where he is Professor of English at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, and co-editor of The Malahat Review. He is a prolific author, and has had published many volumes of his own poetry, as well as biographies, crítical works, children's books, symposia, and editions (including the general editorship of the Oxford edition of the works of J. M. Synge).What is it like to be a poet? Is he essentially different from other men? Is there a place for him in the modern world? Can he earn his living without compromising his poetic integrity or dulling his sensibility?Robin Skelton has admirable qualifications to answer these and similar questions both from his own experience and that of poets past and present. He is himself a prolific poet and critic who has lived and worked both in Britain and Canada. He quotes accounts by John Wain, Tony Connor, Richard Eberhardt, William Jay Smith, and others of the creative process as they have experienced it. There is also a fascinating set of work- sheets showing the evolution of poems by Robert Francis, Anne Sexton, James Baxter, Kingsley Amis, and Robert Graves.The Poet's Calling complements Robin Skelton's well- received earlier study, The Practice of Poetry."- PublisherWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Poet's Calling. To get started finding The Poet's Calling, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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