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Shades of the Sublime & Beautiful (Paperback)
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Shades of the Sublime & Beautiful (Paperback)
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List price R279
Loot Price R220
Discovery Miles 2 200
You Save R59 (21%)
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Australian John Kinsella is one of the most highly regarded poets
currently writing in English. Taking Edmund Burke's 250-year old
masterpiece A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of
the Sublime and Beautiful as his template, Kinsella has produced
his most accomplished and broadly representative work to date.
Shades of the Sublime & Beautiful is a warm, human, anecdotally
rich book, concentrating many of the themes that have obsessed its
author over the last twenty years: language, love, the invocation
of place, the mysteries of the Australian wilderness, and our
mediations between the human and natural realms. Together, these
lyric meditations build towards a profound thesis on the ecology of
the imagination, and are always conducted in concrete, vivid and
exuberant language that is unmistakably Kinsella's own. 'Kinsella's
poems are a very rare feat: they are narratives of feeling. Vivid
sight - of landscapes, of animals, of human forms in distant light
- becomes insight. There is, often, the shock of the new. But
somehow awaited, even familiar. Which is the homecoming of a true
poet' George Steiner 'John Kinsella is an Orphic fountain, a
prodigy of the imagination . . . he frequently makes me think of
John Ashbery: improbable fecundity, eclecticism, and a stand that
fuses populism and elitism in poetic audience' Harold Bloom
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