The Oxford Book of Verse in English Translation
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The Oxford Book of Verse in English Translation by Charles Tomlinson
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David Morley is an ecologist, naturalist, and poet whose work has won 14 awards and prizes, including the Templar Poetry Prize, the Poetry Business Competition, and an Arts Council of England Writer's Award. He is also known for his pioneering ecological poetry installations within natural landscapes and for the creation of slow poetry sculptures and I-Cast poetry films. He currently teaches at the University of Warwick.
Charles Tomlinson was born in Stoke on Trent in 1927. He studied at Cambridge with Donald Davie and taught at the University of Bristol from 1956 until his retirement. He published many collections of poetry as well as volumes of criticism and translation, and edited the Oxford Book of Verse in Translation (1980). His poetry won international recognition and received many prizes in Europe and the United States, including the 1993 Bennett Award from the Hudson Review; the New Criterion Poetry Prize, 2002; the Premio Internazionale di Poesia Ennio Flaiano, 2001; and the Premio Internazionale di Poesia Attilio Bertolucci, 2004. He was an Honorary Fellow of Queens' College, Cambridge, the American Academy of the Arts and Sciences, and of the Modern Language Association. Charles Tomlinson was made a CBE in 2001 for his contribution to literature. He died in 2015.
Charles Tomlinson was born in Stoke on Trent in 1927. He studied at Cambridge with Donald Davie and taught at the University of Bristol from 1956 until his retirement. He published many collections of poetry as well as volumes of criticism and translation, and edited the Oxford Book of Verse in Translation (1980). His poetry won international recognition and received many prizes in Europe and the United States, including the 1993 Bennett Award from the Hudson Review; the New Criterion Poetry Prize, 2002; the Premio Internazionale di Poesia Ennio Flaiano, 2001; and the Premio Internazionale di Poesia Attilio Bertolucci, 2004. He was an Honorary Fellow of Queens' College, Cambridge, the American Academy of the Arts and Sciences, and of the Modern Language Association. Charles Tomlinson was made a CBE in 2001 for his contribution to literature. He died in 2015.
SKU | GOR004700978 |
ISBN 13 | 9780192141033 |
ISBN 10 | 0192141031 |
Title | The Oxford Book of Verse in English Translation |
Author | Charles Tomlinson |
Condition | good |
Binding type | Hardback |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Year published | 1980-10-02 |
Number of pages | 656 |
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