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The Strength of Poetry

The Strength of Poetry

The Oxford Lecturers on Poetry, 1994-1999

by James Fenton
Hardback
Publication Date: 01/03/2001

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Why should a poet feel the need to be original? What is the relationship between genius and apprenticeship? James Fenton, Oxford Professor of Poetry from 1994 to 1999 and winner of the Whitbread Prize for Poetry, examines some of the most intriguing questions behind the making of the art - issues of creativity and the earning of success, of judgement, tutorage, rivalry and ambition.
ISBN:
9780198187073
9780198187073
Category:
Poetry
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
01-03-2001
Publisher:
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Country of origin:
United States
Dimensions (mm):
216x138mm
Weight:
0.57kg
James Fenton

James Fenton was born in Lincoln, England, in 1949 and educated at Magdalen College, Oxford. He has worked as a political journalist, drama critic, book reviewer, war correspondent, foreign correspondent and columnist, including for the New York Review of Books. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Fenton received the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 2007, and in 2015 won the PEN Pinter Prize.

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