Reading Peter Reading - Isabel Martin

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Title
Reading Peter Reading
Author
Isabel Martin
format
Paperback / softback
Publisher
Bloodaxe Books
Language
English
UK Publication Date
20000525

Peter Reading is one of Britain's most prolific, versatile, startlingly contemporary and strikingly original poets. Employing increasingly ingenious metrical skills, Reading maps out an inconsolably sad and at times hilariously funny picture of England - and the world - in decline. Tackling issues such as violence, illness, madness, homelessness and environmental catastrophe, his eschatological vision chastises a world gone morally, ecologically and politically insane. Both bleak and deeply humane, his harrowing art aspires to nothing less than a distilled elegiac epic of our time. The destruction also strikes at Reading's art itself - the last six books are one long valedictory, culminating in his own death statement, Ob.Reading Peter Reading is the first comprehensive study in English of Peter Reading's ouvre, illuminating its thematic and formal concerns, paradoxes and development as well as underlining its major status in contemporary literature. The book is based on Isabel Martin's pioneering doctoral dissertation on Reading, awarded the State Prize of Kiel University. Its updated, detailed textual analysis will help readers' understanding of the poetry, and as a whole it provides a thorough and substantial basis for any future critical discussion of Reading's works.Reading Peter Reading covers Peter Reading's collections from Water and Waste (1970) to Marfan (2000).

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Isabel Martin read English and Russian at Kiel, Cambridge and Moscow Universities. She is a literary critic who lectures part-time at Koblenz University, as well as working as a freelance teacher trainer, translator and interpreter. Her critical study Reading Peter Reading (Bloodaxe Books, 2000) is based on her pioneering doctoral dissertation on Peter Reading's work, awarded the State Prize of Kiel University.

Type
BOOK
Country of Publication
England
Number of Pages
319

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