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This version of the work, composed for Children's Voices, Piano and
Percussion, was commissioned by the Young People's Chorus of New
York City. Conductor's Score and Percussion Parts are available
from the Publishers. Text: Peter Porter
T.S. Eliot considered George Herbert one of the liveliest and most
profound of English poets with whose work he felt an instinctive
accord. Describing The Temple as ... 'not simply a collection of
poems but ... a record of the spiritual struggles of a man of
intellectual power and emotional intensity who gave much toil to
perfecting his verses ...' T.S. Eliot considered Herbert's
religious verse above John Donne's and placed him firmly in the
ranks of the great English poets. Peter Porter's new introduction
gives a fresh perspective on the poetry of Herbert and on Eliot's
study itself.
In this new selection from the poetry of Lawrence Durrell (the
first for thirty years), Peter Porter has drawn on the full range
of the published work, from A Private Country (1943) to Vega
(1973), and has provided a long overdue revaluation of Durrell's
poetic career. In his detailed and generous introduction, Porter
makes the case for A Private Country as one of the most
accomplished debut collections of the twentieth century, and traces
Durrell's preoccupations and poetic personality within the wider
scene. The selection of poems makes its own strong case for the
continuing power and originality of this attractive, metropolitan
and wholly individual body of work.
The original Faber Book of Modern Verse (1936), edited by Michael
Roberts, was influential in forming the tastes of a generation and
gave a concrete meaning to the phrase 'modern verse'. In order to
keep the anthology a reasonably representative one containing poems
written since 1936 there have been two revised editions - one by
Anne ridler in 1951 and one by Donald Hall in 1965. The new
edition, edited by Peter Porter, is intended to be the final one
and it is published simultaneously with a reissue of Michael
Roberts' original.In a short Introduction Peter Porter explains the
principles which he has followed in making changes to the existing
selection and in making his choice of poems which have appeared
since the last edition.
Born in Hampshire in 1918, Martin Bell was the leading member of
the 'lost generation' of English poets whose careers were
interrupted by the War. He was a prominent member of The Group
during the fifties, and a major influence on younger poets like
Peter Redgrove and Peter Porter. His poetry reached a wide audience
during the sixties through Penguin Modern Poets, and in 1967 he
published his Collected Poems,1937-1966, his first and last book.
Bell was also a champion and brilliant translator of French
Surrealist poets. He died in poverty in Leeds in 1978. Like other
'provincial' working-class contemporaries, Bell wrote fantastical,
highly erudite, biting, belligerent poetry. And yet - as Philip
Hobsbaum said - he also wrote 'some of the most delicate love poems
of our time' as well as 'one of the major war poems in the
language'. A. Alvarez called him 'an emotional tightrope walker...
He writes a rather bitter, tensely colloquial verse based, it
seems, on a radical dislike for both himself and pretty much
everything else.'
Following the terrific success of Max is Missing - winner of the
Forward Prize for best poetry collection - Peter Porter has
produced another book of great power and erudition. 'Afterburner' -
the device that provides the extra thrust to a turbojet - is a
thoroughly appropriate title for this fuel-injected late work. From
his lengthening perspective and high vantage, no one is better
placed than Porter to give these subtle meditations on art, life
and the social mores - and few could manage them with such
compassion and humour. Afterburner will further enhance his
reputation as one of the finest poets writing in English today.
When Peter Porter died in 2010 his reputation as one of the
greatest Australian poets had long been settled. Chorale at the
Crossing gathers together the work Porter completed after the
publication of his widely-praised final collection Better than God,
and shows a remarkable and capacious mind - apparently furnished
with half the contents of Western culture - still working at full
tilt, despite the imminence of his own passing. Chorale at the
Crossing contains love poems, comic excursions, and meditations on
art, death, music and nature, all written with Porter's phenomenal
technical facility and immense good humour. Chorale at the Crossing
is the last word from one of our wisest and most compassionate
poets - and is, quite simply, necessary reading.
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The Descendants of John Porter, of Windsor, Conn., in the Line of His Great, Great Grandson, Col. Joshua Porter, M.D., of Salisbury, Litchfield County, Conn., With Some Account of the Families Into Which They Married .. (Hardcover)
Henry Porter B. 1822 Andrews, Peter Porter 1835- Wiggins
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The Descendants of John Porter, of Windsor, Conn., in the Line of His Great, Great Grandson, Col. Joshua Porter, M.D., of Salisbury, Litchfield County, Conn., With Some Account of the Families Into Which They Married .. (Paperback)
Henry Porter B. 1822 Andrews, Peter Porter 1835- Wiggins
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The descendants of John Porter, of Windsor, Conn., in the line of his great, great grandson, Col. Joshua Porter, M.D., of Salisbury, Litchfield county, Conn., with some account of the families into which they married (Paperback)
Henry Porter Andrews, Peter Porter Wiggins
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The descendants of John Porter, of Windsor, Conn., - In the line of his great, great grandson, Col. Joshua Porter, M.D., of Salisbury, Litchfield county, Conn., with some account of the families into which they married (Paperback)
Peter Porter Wiggins
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This collection of Australian poet Peter Porter ranges from racy satires of 1960s London, scabrous versions of the poems of Martial, poems on Auschwitz and the Cold War, tender and self-critical elegies for his first wife, who committed suicide, and elegant mediations on art, love, death and sex.
Michelangelo was, apart from being a sculptor, architect, and
painter of genius, a poet and letter-writer of remarkable
accomplishment. George Bull, a distinguished translator of many
Italian classics, has brought his skill and experience to bear on
translating this new selection of Michelangelo's letters and
poetry, as well as the Life, the biography written by
Michelangelo's pupil Ascanio Condivi.
About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has
made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the
globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to
scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of
other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading
authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date
bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Better Than God sees Porter working with a lyric engine tuned to
perfection, and a mind that shows every sign of speeding up: Porter
can make a song of what another writer might take an essay to
cover. Whether working in the forms of epigram or narrative, or
writing of memory, mortality, Renaissance intrigue or the surreal
distortions of old age - Porter's faith in poetry as a road to the
truth shines through. There are few other writers for whom
contemporary events throw such long shadows or for whom the past is
so present, and in Better Than God one has the sense of the poet
attaining an increasingly commanding height. Porter remains one of
the few poets we can open anywhere, and know that we will always be
both enlightened and entertained.
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