Martin Seymour-Smith (1928-1998) was in the line of English poetry
that includes Thomas Hardy and Robert Graves two poets whose
biographies he wrote (he had known Graves since the age of
fourteen, and revered Hardy). He was also a proponent of a
phenomenological poetry rooted in experience, and an advocate of
such experimental foreign-language poets as the Peruvian Cesar
Vallejo. For younger poets, he points a way to go that is beyond
the usual territories mapped out by Modernism and tradition. As
well as a biographer, he was a brilliant critic the Samuel Johnson
of his day, according to Anthony Burgess. His massive Guide to
Modern World Literature included many original translations,
several of which are collected here for the first time. In the
critical realm, his combative instincts as a former bantam-weight
boxer never left him. But the main theme of his poetry is love
complex, often destructive, always mysterious which aches to know
what is known only, or is unknowable.
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