...’ (Wordsworth)
‘Now as I was young and easy under the apple boughs
About the lilting house and happy as the grass was green...’(Dylan Thomas)
‘I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by
madness, starving hysterical naked,
dragging themselves through the negro streets at
dawn ... Read review
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Keep on Moving Review ofA Sense Of Movement - Thom Gunnby
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Advantages: Accessible and easy to read Disadvantages: Poetry put some people off!
...have to admit I’m not a great reader of poetry but from time to time I come across something that seems to connect with me. With this in mind I thought I’d do a review of one my favourite poetry collections, ‘A Sense Of Movement’ by British born poet Thom Gunn. Those of you who have read some of my previous opinions will know that I an a fan of the Beat movement, a loose collection of American poets and writers who managed to give an alternative ... ...music.
Thom Gunn was not a fully paid up member of this literary movement but in this collection he covers the same ground. Youth angst and culture in general is the principal subject as it was for many writers of the Beat movement like Kerouac, Burroughs and Ginsberg.
A BIT OF BACKGROUND
Thom Gunn was born in Gravesend in 1929 and was brought up in Hampstead North London. After leaving school, Gunn did two years of National Service and then got ...
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