John Carey (1) (1934–)
Autore di The Faber Book of Reportage
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Sull'Autore
John Carey is Merton Professor of English at Oxford University. A distinguished critic, reviewer, & broadcaster, he is the author of several books, including "The Intellectuals & the Masses". (Bowker Author Biography)
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Opere di John Carey
The Intellectuals and the Masses: Pride and Prejudice Among the Literary Intelligentsia, 1880-1939 (1992) 329 copie
William Golding: The Man and His Books - A Tribute on His 75th Birthday (1986) — A cura di — 16 copie
English Renaissance studies presented to Dame Helen Gardner in honour of her seventieth birthday (1980) 4 copie
Little Dorrit : a story told in two films : part I, Nobody's fault, part II, Little Dorrit's story : from the… (1987) 4 copie
redigeret af John Carey 1 copia
Opere correlate
La fiera delle vanità (1848) — A cura di, alcune edizioni; Introduzione, alcune edizioni — 14,671 copie
The Pleasure of Reading: 43 Writers on the Discovery of Reading and the Books that Inspired Them (2015) — Collaboratore — 82 copie
The Cambridge Companion to Apocalyptic Literature (Cambridge Companions to Religion) (2020) — Collaboratore — 16 copie
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1934-04-05
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- UK
- Nazione (per mappa)
- UK
- Luogo di nascita
- Barnes, London, England, UK
- Luogo di residenza
- London, England, UK
- Istruzione
- Oxford University (St. John's College)
Richmond and East Sheen Boys’ Grammar School - Attività lavorative
- professor (Emeritus Merton Professor of English Literature ∙ St. John's College ∙ Oxford ∙ 1975-2001)
literary critic
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 25
- Opere correlate
- 9
- Utenti
- 3,444
- Popolarità
- #7,381
- Voto
- 3.8
- Recensioni
- 37
- ISBN
- 163
- Lingue
- 7
- Preferito da
- 2
First of all, I think Carey makes it clear quite early on that this is a personal history, and a focus on a particular throughline of poetry, namely the Anglo-American sphere as inspired by the older Europeans. This is quite clear and indeed obvious; if you're going to broaden out to world poetry, you're going to have a very different book that becomes partly ethnographic since it can't possibly chart the growth of every movement. I say this because quite a few reviews here seem to be complaining about that fact and, frankly, I think they're being performative. As an Australian, I could equally bemoan that our rich poetic history isn't given its due here, but that's not the point of the book, and there are plenty of others on this subject. So perhaps a bit less with the deliberate complaining in lieu of actual commentary.
The core challenge with a book like this, though, is that it's inevitably a taste-tester. These chapters are so very brief that they cannot do justice to any of the poets contained herein. For the earlier chapters and those focusing on longer works, Carey gives us very little (even sometimes nothing) in the way of excerpts, meaning we're just being given his brief overview and an exhortation to read the works. Which is clearly his aim, so it's not a failure, but I think the volume would have benefited from attaching a single full poem to as many of the chapters as possible. The brevity of the chapters means that it isn't for complete novices to the written arts, but equally there's not much in the way of revelatory commentary for those of us who enjoy many of these works. And perhaps that's fine. Perhaps this book will reach its core audience - those who have dabbled in, or are genuinely open to, the reading of poetry - and provide them with dozens of points on which they can jump and begin new journeys. (The later chapters I found most pleasing, as the splintering of the poetic voice in the years around WWII makes for more challenging reading that rewards us hearing as many viewpoints on them as possible.)
A lovely volume in its way, but not one of the better broader overviews of poetry out there.… (altro)