Curtain Call: 101 Portraits In Verse

Curtain Call: 101 Portraits In Verse by Hugo Williams


ISBN
9780571207237
Published
Released
04 / 01 / 2002
Binding
Paperback
Pages
224
Dimensions
131 x 190mm

The art of portraiture in poetry is traceable from the Latin poets and Chaucer via Goldsmith, Wordsworth and Browning, to the modern era of Rimbaud, Cavafy, Auden, Lowell and Hofmann.Poetry is an art form which encourages introspection, so it is a welcome break to find these poets looking outward, fondly or otherwise, in homage or in satire, at their fellow performers on the human stage. Here, you may find yourself rubbing shoulders with the likes of Elvis Presley, Oscar Wilde, and the Duke of Buckingham, or buttonholed by intriguing gatecrashers. Who is Butch Weldy, for instance? And what did become of Waring?
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