
Selected Poems
John Heath-Stubbs(Author)
John Clegg(Editor)
Carcanet Classics (Publisher)
Published on 27. September 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
128 pages
978-1-78410-647-8 (ISBN)
Description
C.H. Sisson called John Heath-Stubbs 'a Johnsonian presence with a Miltonic disability' - a reference to the poet's blindness. This selection of an abundant poet restores him to a new readership with the work on which his popularity was based. His ground-breaking early poetry is given its due, especially the major long poem Wounded Thammuz, printed here in its entirety. Heath-Stubbs was at the centre of the New Romantic school. The Second World War left him as almost the sole representative of one stream of English poetry. He remains crucial to the 1940s and '50s, and was a popular presence into the 1980s, composing his later poems in his head and reciting from memory. Too long he has been sidelined by shifts of critical fashion. Selected Poems includes a critical preface by John Clegg who essentialises and celebrates the work. Three of Heath-Stubbs' translations of Leopardi - revered by subsequent translators, and long out of print - are included.
Reviews / Votes
'It's a reflection of Heath-Stubbs's creative generosity that he writes warmly about apparently trivial things, sometimes in a way that explores or hints at the momentous implications behind them'Edmund Prestwich, The North
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Carcanet Press Ltd
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 211 mm
Width: 135 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
181 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78410-647-8 (9781784106478)
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John Heath-Stubbs was born in 1918 and educated at Queens College, Oxford. A critic, anthologist and translator as well as a poet, he has received the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry and the prestigious St Augustine Cross. Carcanet published seven previous collections by Heath-Stubbs, as well as a Collected and Selected Poems and a collection of his literary essays. In 1988 he was awarded the OBE. His poetry was published by Carcanet for almost thirty years. He died in London on 25th December 2006. John Clegg works as a bookseller in London. In 2013 he was awarded an Eric Gregory Prize. His second collection, Holy Toledo! (2016), was shortlisted for the Ledbury Forte Prize.