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My Grandmother's Glass Eye Craig Raine

My Grandmother's Glass Eye By Craig Raine

My Grandmother's Glass Eye by Craig Raine

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From one of our leading contemporary critics and poets comes a fresh, wily, accessible book of poetry in all its forms.

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My Grandmother's Glass Eye: A Look at Poetry by Craig Raine

'By poetry we - we the masses - mean something vague, something untrue, something uplifting, something beautiful, something so eloquent it isn't for everyday. The word poetry is up there with soul. And I am against it.'

My Grandmother's Glass Eye deploys its considerable learning, its intelligent expertise, wittily, memorably. It is an exercise in demystification and clarity. If you want to know how poetry works on the page, here are sure-footed accounts of particular poems. There is something Johnsonian in Craig Raine's common sense - an elegant wrecking ball used with precision and delicacy to pick off the pretentious, the platitudinous, the over-promoted. Here, poetry is well read, attentively read, by a practitioner whose range runs from Bion to John Lennon, from Bishop to Balanchine.

My Grandmother's Glass Eye Reviews

Treat yourself to a blast of poetry this summer. Anyone remotely interested in the art form should read Craig Raine's wonderful My Grandmother's Glass Eye: A Look at Poetry (Atlantic). Feisty, provocative, learned, passionate - it is a seminal, lasting work. -- William Boyd * Guardian *
Craig Raine still walks among us, a brilliant and passionate observer * THES *
Witty and wide ranging... giving bad readers (Tom Paulin and John Carey) a confident kicking along the way * New Statesman *
Animus, erudition and not a hint of self-doubt. * Spectator *
A knack for making one look and think again, a fidelity to precise description in poetry and criticism that is impressive... * Times Literary Supplement *
Vibrantly derriere-garde... a swipe at that sometimes lazy and often convenient anything-goes school of literary criticism. * Spectator *
Craig Raine's rude and definitive argument for precision in poetry and criticism. * Times Literary Supplement *
An undeniably gripping book... invigorating, vivid and entertaining reading. * Guardian *

About Craig Raine

Craig Raine was born in 1944 and educated at Exeter College, Oxford. He became editor of Quarto in 1979 and was subsequently Poetry Editor at Faber from 1981 to 1991. He is now an emeritus Fellow at New College, Oxford, and has been the editor of Arete since 1999. He is the author of three collections of literary essays, six works of poetry and two novels, Heartbreak and The Divine Comedy, published by Atlantic Books. His Collected Poems 1978-1999 were published in 2000 and his verse drama, '1953' was directed by Patrick Marber at the Almeida Theatre in 1996. He critical study T. S. Eliot was published in 2007.

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GOR011362090
9781848872899
1848872895
My Grandmother's Glass Eye: A Look at Poetry by Craig Raine
Craig Raine
Used - Like New
Hardback
Atlantic Books
20160505
224
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The book has been read, but looks new. The book cover has no visible wear, and the dust jacket is included if applicable. No missing or damaged pages, no tears, possible very minimal creasing, no underlining or highlighting of text, and no writing in the margins

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