James Fenton, Author . Farrar, Straus & Giroux $13 (196p) ISBN 978-0-374-26065-1
Proving there are still plenty of poetic miles left in rhythm and rhyme, as well as in Larkinesque cynicism, this career-spanning collection offers an introduction to the work of a leading British poet and former professor of poetry at Oxford. Love...
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James Fenton, Author Atlantic Monthly Press $9.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-87113-204-8
British poet and journalist Fenton reported for British and American newspapers from Vietnam, Cambodia, the Philippines and Korea from 1973 to 1987, and here recounts, with cynicism and an eye for detail, his remarkable experiences. A self-proclaimed
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James Fenton, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $23 (104p) ISBN 978-0-374-22831-6
A poet-journalist may seem an unlikely combination, since in America the callings have become professions. But Fenton ( All the Wrong Places ), an Englishman, shows what can be done in both when talent and intelligence mingle with an independent...
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James Fenton, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $25 (224p) ISBN 978-0-374-18505-3
A poet and Oxford don, Fenton claims to have made ""no attempt... to impose any overall thesis"" onto the 15 ingenious pieces gathered here on such topics as canon formation, patronage and the peculiarities of collecting (all but two written for the
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James Fenton, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $25 (272p) ISBN 978-0-374-22845-3
The English poet and frequent New York Review of Books contributor Fenton (Out of Danger) succeeded Seamus Heaney in 1994 as Oxford University's Professor of Poetry. Like past holders of the prestigious post, Fenton gave a series of public lectures...
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