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Introduction: Tony Harrison’s public poetry
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SOME of the claims made for Tony Harrison’s work on the cover-copy of his books sound like the worst kind of promo tional puff: ‘one of the most prodigiously gifted and accessible poets alive today[. .. ] “our best English poet” ‘;‘Bold and bril liant[. .. ] the work of a major social poet and a radically inno vative dramatist’.Harrison’s publishers are, however, no more hyperbolic than less partial sources: The Times: ‘our finest theatrical translator’; Punch: ‘our greatest modern theatrical poet’;and Stephen Spender: ‘Poems written in a style which I feel I have all my life been waiting for’.Even the moderate TLS called Harrison ‘a major dramatic poet’.Meanwhile, in the book whose cover proclaims him ‘the most important poet writing in Britain today’,Tony Harrison writes of boarding the Belfast-Newcastle plane anonymously, and reflecting:
Title: Introduction: Tony Harrison’s public poetry
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Abstract
SOME of the claims made for Tony Harrison’s work on the cover-copy of his books sound like the worst kind of promo tional puff: ‘one of the most prodigiously gifted and accessible poets alive today[.
.
] “our best English poet” ‘;‘Bold and bril liant[.
.
] the work of a major social poet and a radically inno vative dramatist’.
Harrison’s publishers are, however, no more hyperbolic than less partial sources: The Times: ‘our finest theatrical translator’; Punch: ‘our greatest modern theatrical poet’;and Stephen Spender: ‘Poems written in a style which I feel I have all my life been waiting for’.
Even the moderate TLS called Harrison ‘a major dramatic poet’.
Meanwhile, in the book whose cover proclaims him ‘the most important poet writing in Britain today’,Tony Harrison writes of boarding the Belfast-Newcastle plane anonymously, and reflecting:.
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