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Hollow Palaces An Anthology of Modern Country House Poems.
This unique gathering of poems about country houses from Hardy to Armitage is more than just a highly entertaining anthology of accessible modern verse. It amounts to a survey of politico-historical shifts in twentieth-century British society as seen and imagined by both insiders and outsiders. It i...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Liverpool University Press,
2021.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword (Sir Simon Jenkins)
- Introduction: 'Amid Great Chambers and Long Galleries' (John Greening)
- Introduction: A Brief Historical Tour of Country House Poetry (Kevin Gardner)
- List of Illustrations (Rosie Greening)
- Insiders
- Castle Howard (John Betjeman)
- Romance of a Youngest Daughter (John Crowe Ransom)
- Still-Life (Elizabeth Daryush)
- Sissinghurst (Vita Sackville-West)
- The Manor House (Clive Wilmer)
- Owlpen Manor (U. A. Fanthorpe)
- Dorothy Osborne in the Country (Peter Porter)
- Peter Wentworth in Heaven (Fleur Adcock)
- Twilight (Stuart Henson)
- Daisy at the Court (Robert Minhinnick)
- Plas Difancoll (R. S. Thomas)
- The Ballroom at Blaxter Hall (Peter Bennet)
- Sir Frederick (Charles Causley)
- The Grange (Stevie Smith)
- from Sir Osbert's Complaint (Gregory Woods)
- A Household (W. H. Auden)
- A Vacant Possession (James Fenton)
- Milgate (Robert Lowell)
- Coole Park, 1929 (W. B. Yeats)
- Song to Mark a Boundary (Anne Ridler)
- The Topiarist (Freda Downie)
- Mistress (Esther Morgan)
- Service (Philip Gross)
- Baize Doors (Craig Raine)
- Song of a Past Scullery-Maid (Sheila Wingfield)
- Servant Boy (Seamus Heaney)
- Ghosts & Echoes
- Haunted House (U. A. Fanthorpe)
- The Pier-Glass (Robert Graves)
- While Reading a Ghost Story (Siegfried Sassoon)
- A Haunted House (Jane Griffiths)
- In the Castle (Jean Sprackland)
- The Ruined Garden (Neil Powell)
- Walmer Castle (P. J. Kavanagh)
- In Blenheim Park (Kieron Winn)
- Shrine for a Young Soldier, Castle Drogo (Rory Waterman)
- Soap Suds (Louis Macneice)
- Blown Hilcote Manor (John Masefield)
- That House (Brian Jones)
- Acton Burnell (Rennie Parker)
- The House that Was (Laurence Binyon)
- Prospect of Ditchley (Roland Mathias)
- Tapestries (C. Day Lewis)
- House-keeping (Esther Morgan)
- Houghton House (Robert Conquest)
- Blue Bedfordshire (Glen Cavaliero)
- At Mapledurham (Edmund Blunden)
- Canons Ashby (David Wright)
- Penshurst Place (Derek Mahon)
- Wilton Park (Alison Brackenbury)
- Alfoxton (J. C. Hall)
- Elm End (Jon Stallworthy)
- A Country Mansion (Robert Graves)
- Colonel Fantock (Edith Sitwell)
- from Bolsover Castle (Sacheverell Sitwell)
- In Heytesbury Wood (Siegfried Sassoon)
- These Homes (Mimi Khalvati)
- from Burnt Norton (T. S. Eliot)
- Rites & Conversions
- Tresham's Fancy (Rennie Parker)
- Lyveden New Bield (Jane Griffiths)
- At Colwick Park (George Szirtes)
- A Banquet at Middleton (Gillian Clarke)
- The Young Duchess Walks with Mr Brown To Discuss Improvements (Sarah Salway)
- County (John Betjeman)
- Great Edwardian (Tony Williams)
- Metamorphoses (Hilary Davies)
- Care-taking (Esther Morgan)
- Ripley Eels (Kit Fan)
- Wycoller Hall (Ted Hughes)
- The Changeling (Henry Reed)
- A Property of the National Trust (Debora Greger)
- Great Good House (Michael Vince)
- Corpus Christi (Elizabeth Bartlett)