Description
| Product ID: | 9780141984568 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | The Penguin Book of the Prose Poem |
| Subtitle: | From Baudelaire to Anne Carson |
| Authors: | Author: Jeremy Noel-Tod |
| Page Count: | 480 |
| Subjects: | Poetry anthologies (various poets), Poetry anthologies (various poets), Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: poetry and poets, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: poetry & poets |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating 'A wonderful book - an invigorating revelation ... An essential collection of prose poems from across the globe, by old masters and new, reveals the form's astonishing range' Kate Kellaway, Observer'A superb anthology . . . it is hard to know how it could possibly be bettered' Daily TelegraphThis is the prose poem: a 'genre with an oxymoron for a name', one of literature's great open secrets, and the home for over 150 years of extraordinary work by many of the world's most beloved writers. This uniquely wide-ranging anthology gathers essential pieces of writing from every stage of the form's evolution, beginning with the great flowering of recent years before moving in reverse order through the international experiments of the 20th century and concluding with the prose poem's beginnings in 19th-century France. Edited with an introduction by Jeremy Noel-Tod ''A wonderful book - an invigorating revelation ... An essential collection of prose poems from across the globe, by old masters and new, reveals the form''s astonishing range'' Kate Kellaway, Observer |
| Imprint Name: | Penguin Classics |
| Publisher Name: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2019-11-07 |
