35%OFF
Stock image for illustration purposes only - book cover, edition or condition may vary.
My Grandmother´s Glass Eye: A Look at Poetry
Craig Raine
€ 32.99
€ 21.36
FREE Delivery in Ireland
Description for My Grandmother´s Glass Eye: A Look at Poetry
Hardback. From one of our leading contemporary critics and poets comes a fresh, wily, accessible book of poetry in all its forms. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DCF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148. .
'By poetry we - we the masses - mean something vague, something untrue, something uplifting, something beautiful, something so eloquent it isn't for everyday. The word poetry is up there with soul . And I am against it.' My Grandmother's Glass Eye deploys its considerable learning, its intelligent expertise, wittily, memorably. It is an exercise in demystification and clarity. If you want to know how poetry works on the page, here are sure-footed accounts of particular poems. There is something Johnsonian in Craig Raine's common sense - an elegant wrecking ball used with precision ... Read more
'By poetry we - we the masses - mean something vague, something untrue, something uplifting, something beautiful, something so eloquent it isn't for everyday. The word poetry is up there with soul . And I am against it.' My Grandmother's Glass Eye deploys its considerable learning, its intelligent expertise, wittily, memorably. It is an exercise in demystification and clarity. If you want to know how poetry works on the page, here are sure-footed accounts of particular poems. There is something Johnsonian in Craig Raine's common sense - an elegant wrecking ball used with precision ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Atlantic Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781848872899
SKU
V9781848872899
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-10
About Craig Raine
Craig Raine was born in 1944 and educated at Exeter College, Oxford. He became editor of Quarto in 1979 and was subsequently Poetry Editor at Faber from 1981 to 1991. He is now an emeritus Fellow at New College, Oxford, and has been the editor of Arete since 1999. He is the author of three collections of literary essays, six ... Read more
Reviews for My Grandmother´s Glass Eye: A Look at Poetry
An undeniably gripping book... invigorating, vivid and entertaining reading.
Guardian
Craig Raine's rude and definitive argument for precision in poetry and criticism.
Times Literary Supplement
Vibrantly derriere-garde... a swipe at that sometimes lazy and often convenient anything-goes school of literary criticism.
Spectator
A knack for making one look and think again, a fidelity to ... Read more
Guardian
Craig Raine's rude and definitive argument for precision in poetry and criticism.
Times Literary Supplement
Vibrantly derriere-garde... a swipe at that sometimes lazy and often convenient anything-goes school of literary criticism.
Spectator
A knack for making one look and think again, a fidelity to ... Read more