Advantages: poems, chronology, price Disadvantages: Not the easiest to find in stores!
When I went back home to Aberdeen for a short holiday earlier this year, I told myself that, no matter what, I was going to come away with a book about Lord Byron. The early nineteenth-century poet spent a lot of his childhood growing up in my home town, ...
Advantages: Very interesting Disadvantages: Obscure/ boring in parts
THE AUTHOR
Iain Sinclair started as a poet in the London avant-garde fringe in the 1960s and 1970s. A fruitful period as a second-hand book dealer paid his bills before he became famous for his essays and novels such as 'Lud Heat', 'Suicide Bridge', 'Wh ...
Advantages: Unconventional, interesting, a rare voice even today Disadvantages: A bit elementary at times
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anyone lived in a pretty how town
with up so floating many bells down
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The poetry of ee cummings is something that most Americans gain exposure to during secondary ...
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Over the last few months I've been delving into the world of William Butler Yeats. As a huge and reader of Irish literature, and Ireland in general, it was only natural that a Yeats book would, at some point, make its way into my collection. I am quite a ...
