The Music of Time: Poetry in the Twentieth Century

Author(s): John Burnside

Music

A revelatory history of twentieth-century poetry by prize-winning poet and memoirist John Burnside


 


Poetry helps us to make sense of our world, transforming what the Russian poet Osip Mandelstam called the noise of time into a kind of music. The Music of Time is a unique history of twentieth-century poetry by one of today's most acclaimed poets, blending incandescent personal meditations with rare insights about a broad range of poets who distilled the essence of the moment, gave voice to our griefs and joys, and shaped our collective memory. John Burnside takes readers from the trenches of World War I to a prison cell in Nazi Germany, and from Rilke's grave in the Swiss Alps to Dylan Thomas's Welsh seaside. His luminous narrative is woven through with insights into the poet's creative process as well as lyrical and thought-provoking digressions on topics ranging from marriage to the Kennedy assassination.

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General Fields

  • : 9781781255629
  • : Profile Books
  • : Profile Trade
  • : 0.435
  • : June 2021
  • : 3.1 Centimeters X 12.9 Centimeters X 19.8 Centimeters
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : John Burnside
  • : Paperback
  • : English
  • : 809.104