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Oxford in Verse

Glyn Pursglove and Alistair Ricketts

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Description:Oxford has inspired many poems, but it has waited a long time for this anthology to give a generous sampling of them.Glyn Pursglove and Alistair Ricketts offer a representative range of poetic responses to Oxford over a period of four hundred years. They begin with Thomas Lodge's vision of Christ Church Meadow people with dancing water nymphs, and end with Duncan Bush's annotation of the "draughty common sink, the crumbling edge / of Cotswold sills, the old decrepit stair." Their choice of poems naturally reflects Matthew Arnold's famous description of Oxford as "that sweet City with her dreaming spires," but it also gives due attention to such places as "the land of the canal," dearer to James Elroy Flecker than "the antique town." Space is found for critics as well as devotees.Oxford in Verse provides a highly readable collection of generally unfamiliar poems, useful biographies of the poets, and many fascinating glimpses of the social history of Oxford. It will give pleasure to all those who have any connection with, or affection for, a place which has been called "the Muses' paradise."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Oxford in Verse. To get started finding Oxford in Verse, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 192

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: The Perpetua Press

Release: 1999

ISBN: 1870882148

Description: Oxford has inspired many poems, but it has waited a long time for this anthology to give a generous sampling of them.Glyn Pursglove and Alistair Ricketts offer a representative range of poetic responses to Oxford over a period of four hundred years. They begin with Thomas Lodge's vision of Christ Church Meadow people with dancing water nymphs, and end with Duncan Bush's annotation of the "draughty common sink, the crumbling edge / of Cotswold sills, the old decrepit stair." Their choice of poems naturally reflects Matthew Arnold's famous description of Oxford as "that sweet City with her dreaming spires," but it also gives due attention to such places as "the land of the canal," dearer to James Elroy Flecker than "the antique town." Space is found for critics as well as devotees.Oxford in Verse provides a highly readable collection of generally unfamiliar poems, useful biographies of the poets, and many fascinating glimpses of the social history of Oxford. It will give pleasure to all those who have any connection with, or affection for, a place which has been called "the Muses' paradise."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Oxford in Verse. To get started finding Oxford in Verse, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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