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- catalog abstract ""As this anthology demonstrates, the poetry of the last hundred years has been both a mirror and a gloss to the age. Drawing on poetry written in English and in translation, Peter Forbes's aim has been to capture this century's flavour 'with something like the tang of newsreel and the zest of popular song'. There are thirty-nine sections, which run the gamut of moods from the deadly serious to the playful: from 'Omens' (Cavafy, Hardy, Kipling) to 'The Jazz Age' (Mayakovsky, Eliot, Langston Hughes), from 'The Holocaust' (Auden, Rumens, Milosz) to 'The Sixties' (Edwin Morgan, Bob Dylan, Lennon and McCartney), from 'Work' (Craig Raine, Wendy Cope, Simon Armitage), to 'Love and Sex' (Larkin, Fleur Adcock, Thom Gunn). W. H. Auden and Louis MacNeice are the presiding spirits of the book, but there is plenty of room too for completely different voices, whether the surrealism of Apollinaire, the beat of Allen Ginsberg, the lamentations of Paul Celan or the gentle wistfulness of John Betjeman."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog contributor b11128006.
- catalog created "1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1999.".
- catalog description ""As this anthology demonstrates, the poetry of the last hundred years has been both a mirror and a gloss to the age. Drawing on poetry written in English and in translation, Peter Forbes's aim has been to capture this century's flavour 'with something like the tang of newsreel and the zest of popular song'. There are thirty-nine sections, which run the gamut of moods from the deadly serious to the playful: from 'Omens' (Cavafy, Hardy, Kipling) to 'The Jazz Age' (Mayakovsky, Eliot, Langston Hughes), from 'The Holocaust' (Auden, Rumens, Milosz) to 'The Sixties' (Edwin Morgan, Bob Dylan, Lennon and McCartney), from 'Work' (Craig Raine, Wendy Cope, Simon Armitage), to 'Love and Sex' (Larkin, Fleur Adcock, Thom Gunn). W. H. Auden and Louis MacNeice are the presiding spirits of the book, but there is plenty of room too for completely different voices, whether the surrealism of Apollinaire, the beat of Allen Ginsberg, the lamentations of Paul Celan or the gentle wistfulness of John Betjeman."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog description "Includes index.".
- catalog extent "xl, 596 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Scanning the century.".
- catalog identifier "0670880116".
- catalog isFormatOf "Scanning the century.".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "London : Viking, New York : Penguin Putnam,".
- catalog relation "Scanning the century.".
- catalog subject "808.8104 21".
- catalog subject "PS595.T84 S33x 1999".
- catalog subject "Poetry, Modern 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Twentieth century Poetry.".
- catalog title "Scanning the century : the Penguin book of the twentieth century in poetry / edited by Peter Forbes.".
- catalog type "Poetry. fast".
- catalog type "text".