Glyn Maxwell
Auteur de On Poetry
A propos de l'auteur
Glyn Maxwell was born in 1962 in Hertfordshire, England. He studied English at Oxford & poetry at Boston University. Among the honors he has received are the Somerset Maugham Prize & the E.M. Forster Prize. He now lives with his wife & their daughter in Massachusetts, where he teaches at Amherst afficher plus College. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
Crédit image: Credit: David Shankbone, 2007
Œuvres de Glyn Maxwell
Mortification (ROBERTSON) 1 exemplaire
Mortifications (ROBERTSON) 1 exemplaire
Mozart's The Magic Flute : New English version by Glyn Maxwell [programme and libretto] (2017) — Librettist — 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
Hontes : confessions impudiques mises en scène par les auteurs (2003) — Contributeur — 280 exemplaires
Poetry Speaks Expanded: Hear Poets Read Their Own Work from Tennyson to Plath (2007) — Contributeur — 151 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Maxwell, Glyn
- Date de naissance
- 1962-11-07
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- England
UK - Lieu de naissance
- Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, England, UK
- Lieux de résidence
- Islington, London, England, UK
New York, New York, USA - Études
- University of Oxford (Worcester College)
Boston University - Professions
- teacher
poet
playwright
librettist - Prix et distinctions
- E. M. Forster Award (1997)
Somerset Maugham Prize, Society of Authors, 1992
Membres
Discussions
The Gambler à Fans of Russian authors (Juin 2009)
Critiques
Listes
Prix et récompenses
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 32
- Aussi par
- 6
- Membres
- 495
- Popularité
- #49,936
- Évaluation
- 3.7
- Critiques
- 11
- ISBN
- 62
- Langues
- 1
Then I hated it by page 13, when he puts poets on a pedestal above pop musicians. "Songwriters stir up a living tradition, poets make flowers grow in the air." But I continued on, and by the end of the book I realized I had come to it with the expectation that it was a poetry primer, when it was in fact one man's experience and opinions about poetry. Once I understood that, and shed my preconceptions, I settled in and listened.
Overall not exactly my bag, but good enough and interesting enough that I finished it. If you like reading a poet waxing poetic about poetry, then you will probably like this book.… (plus d'informations)