This is a collection of James Fenton's poetry. In the tradition of Auden, the poet is also a writer whose sense of the absurd affords him an insight into those occasions where the private and public worlds strangely clash.

The memory of war ; and, Children in exile: Poems, 1968-1983 (King Penguin)

Fenton, James

Penguin

<p>Granta #15 collection of essays. Essays included: *On Harley-Davidson (Richard Ford); *Grandma Norman and the Queen (Philip Norman); *The Fall of Saigon (James Fenton); *Ten Years On; *Toothpaste (Frank Snepp); *Impotence (Norman Podhretz); *Dominoes (Noam Chomsky); *The Essential Gesture: Writers and Responsibility (Nadine Gordimer); *A Conversation Piece (George Steiner); *On Gunter Grass (Salmon Rushdie); *THE TIN DRUM in Retrospect (Gunter Grass); *Go ask the Time (John Berger); *Warsaw Diary (Ryszard Kapuscinski); *A Life of Photographs (Don McCullin); *Revelations (Peter Grieg); and *Writing in the Cold: The first ten years (Ted Soltaroff).</p>

The Fall of Saigon (Granta)

NORMAN, Philip

Snepp, Frank

CHOMSKY, Noam.

FORD, RICHARD

Viking Pr

The Snap Revolution: James Fenton in the Philippines (Granta)

History

Americas

All the Wrong Places: Adrift in the Politics of Asia

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Leonardo's Nephew: Essays On Art And Artists

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Out of Danger

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Love Bomb and Other Musical Pieces

Penguin Books, Ltd.

Listen to what they did.Don’t listen to what they said.What was written in bloodHas been set up in lead.—from “Blood and Lead” The leading poet of his generation, James Fenton has over the course of his career built a body of work breathtaking in its range and sensibility. From the passionate political poems that launched him into fame to the intimate illuminations of love—and loss of love—in his later work, Fenton’s poetry has always been marked by formal daring, wit, and an abiding empathy for the victims of war and political oppression. With selections from all of his published work since The Memory of War, the entire text of his libretto The Love Bomb, and new, previously uncollected poems, Selected Poems is an imaginative and formal tour de force.

Selected Poems

Why should a poet feel the need to be original? What is the relationship between genius and apprenticeship? James Fenton, Oxford Professor of Poetry 1994-1999 and winner of the Whitbread Prize for Poetry, examines some of the most intriguing questions behind the making of the art - issues ofcreativity and the 'earning' of success, of judgement, tutorage, rivalry, and ambition. With the contextual richness of a former foreign-correspondent, Fenton goes on to consider the juvenilia of Wilfred Owen, the 'scarred' lines of Philip Larkin, the inheritance of imperialism, and issues of'constituency' in Seamus Heaney. He looks too at Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop, Sylvia Plath, and their contrasting 'feminisms', at D. H. Lawrence, 'welcoming the dark'; and in the end, W. H. Auden - that defining influence upon Fenton's own poetry - who receives extended coverage in the finalquarter of the book.Immensely readable, The Strength of Poetry is a major account of modern poetry from one of its leading figures.

The strength of poetry

Oxford University Press

James Fenton, one of England's most gifted poets, has in recent years been looking closely at works of art and writing incisively and inventively about them and their creators. This collection of fifteen writings discusses a wide range of painting and sculpture, from the mummy portraits of ancient Egypt to the works of Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns."Ingenious. . . . Intrigued by emerging and unstable reputations, [Fenton] introduces us to Leonardo da Vinci's half-brother's son Pierino: a precocious sculptor celebrated by Vasari but virtually forgotten since."—Publishers Weekly"Not surprisingly, Fenton displays throughout the passionate attentiveness of a scholar, the enthusiasm of an amateur, and the urbane cleverness of an English journalist."—Washington Post Book World"[Fenton] is not, like Baudelaire, a poet moonlighting as art critic; he is something else again—a poetic art historian." —Karen Wright, Observer"These essays educate, enlighten, surprise and thrill, unfailingly."—Robin Lippincott, New York Times Book Review

Leonardo's Nephew: Essays on Art and Artists

University of Chicago Press

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