Tony Harrison Loiner [Hardcover]

This book, published to commemorate the sixtieth birth of Harrison, called our best English poet, contains essays, reminiscences, and critical studies by such luminaries as Melvyn Bragg and Richard Eyre.

Abbreviations
Foreword,Lord Gowrie
Introduction: Tony Harrison's Public Poetry,Sandie Byrne
1. The Best Poet of 1961,Desmond Graham
2. Tony Harrison the Playwright,Richard Eyre
3.v. by Tony Harrison, or Production No. 73095, LWT Arts,Melvyn Bragg
4. On Not Being Milton, Marvell, or Gray,Sandie Byrne
5. Open to Experience: Structure and Exploration in Tony Harrison's Poetry,Jem Poster
6. Culture and Debate,Christopher Butler
7. Book Ends: Harrison's Public and Private Poetry,N. S. Thompson
8. Tony Harrison and theGuardian,Alan Rusbridger
9. Doomsongs: Tony Harrison and War,Rick Rylance
10. The Drunken Porter Does Poetry: Metre and Voice in the Poems of Tony Harrison,Martyn Crucefix
11. The Chorus of Mams,Oliver Taplin
12. Poetry or Bust: Tony Harrison and Salt's Mill,Jonathan Silver
13. In the Canon's Mouth: Tony Harrison and Twentieth-Century Poetry,Peter Forbes
14. `Command of English',Bernard O'Donoghue
15. `Pericles in Tynemouth',Desmond Graham
Notes
Contributors
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Index