Collected Poems

Kingsley Amis (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

160 Seiten

2022
Penguin Classics (Verlag)
978-0-14-119421-9 (ISBN)

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'One of the very best of our poets' Anthony Powell

Kingsley Amis wrote poems throughout his life, turning his acerbic, bracing perceptiveness on the same subjects that fill his novels: lust, lost love, drink, money, God (seen as indifferent or malign), and old age. Collected Poems, arranged chronologically, shows the full range of his sparkling verse, by turns scabrous and melancholy, satirical and playful.

'Scathingly funny ... bawdy and tragic, unflinching and unapologetic, culpable and morally acute ... Amis's poems rush headlong into the messiness of life' New Criterion

'A contender for the title of the most accomplished and least self-satisfied poet of his generation' Clive James

Kingsley Amis was born in south London in 1922 and was educated at the City of London School and St John's College, Oxford. After the sucess of Lucky Jim in 1954, Kingsley Amis wrote over twenty novels, including The Alteration (1976), winner of the John W. Campbell Memorial Award; The Old Devils (1986), winner of the Booker Prize; and The Biographer's Moustache (1995), which was to be his last book. He wrote ephemerally on politics, education, language, films, television, restaurants and drink. Kingsley Amis was awarded the CBE in 1981 and received a knighthood in 1990.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	7.4.2022
Reihe/Serie	Penguin Modern Classics
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	129 x 198 mm
Gewicht	123 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
Schlagworte	Englisch; Lyrik/Gedichte
ISBN-10	0-14-119421-9 / 0141194219
ISBN-13	978-0-14-119421-9 / 9780141194219
Zustand	Neuware