Tony Harrison : Selected Poem

At last Americans may read one of England's foremost contemporary poets. Harrison's work derives its power from the conflict between his working class roots and classical education. His style is distinguished by a penchant for rhyme that at its best is dazzling but at time merely facile. His early work features globe-trotting travelog and flamboyant satyriasis; his in-progress sonnet-cycle, "From the School of Eloquence," is more substantial. In it he pays tribute t... >Voir plus