- Paperback: 224 pages
- Publisher: Penguin (2 Feb 2006)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0141024410
- ISBN-13: 978-0141024417
- Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.8 x 2 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 777,508 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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For the first time, James Fenton selects the best of his prize-winning poetry for the Penguin Selected series.
'Passionate and personal; Fenton's poems can also be extremely funny and violent; they are always full of the pleasures of the language' Paul Theroux
'James Fenton is very popular - it's the way he writes, with a mixture of poetic language and real directness' Peter Porter
About the Author
James Fenton was born in Lincoln in 1949 and educated at Magdalen College, Oxford where he won the Newdigate Prize for poetry. He has worked as political journalist, drama critic, book reviewer, war correspondence, foreign correspondent and columnist. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and was Oxford Professor of Poetry for the period 1994-99. He has published three volumes of poetry with Penguin, The Memory of War, Out of Danger and The Love Bomb, as well as An Introduction to English Poetry (2002). His work has won him the Southern Arts Literature Award for Poetry, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and the Whitbread Award for Poetry. He writes regularly for the New Yorker and the Guardian.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Fantastic read
27 Sep 2010
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People are correct to name Fenton as Auden's successor-- but by no means does Fenton live in Auden's shadow. Though much of Fenton's poems are centered on themes he saw first hand as a journalist in many conflicted states, this does not limit readability to those with an interest in war. A German Requiem is, I think, the most powerful poem I have ever read. I would recommend this slim volume to anyone who is interested in modern poetry, and it is a volume I revisit fairly regularly.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
pastoral lost and the false pastor
14 Jun 2011
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with quatrains and ballads, fenton startles in the true tradition of the ballad, the song, the pastoral setting and the blood tragedy. he updates the blood tragedy by tearing from notebooks of war correspondents and journalists in vietnam, tiananmen square, cambodia and iran. he writes of children thrust from innocence to become victims or killers.
between old poems and new poems, fenton has included a verse libretto, The Love Bomb, which is a pretty good story about a religious cult.
the new poems, his recent work, speak of personal love, romantic love.
between old poems and new poems, fenton has included a verse libretto, The Love Bomb, which is a pretty good story about a religious cult.
the new poems, his recent work, speak of personal love, romantic love.
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