James Fenton (1) (1949–)
Autor de An Introduction to English Poetry
Para otros autores llamados James Fenton, ver la página de desambiguación.
Sobre El Autor
James Fenton has been a foreign correspondent & a theater critic & has written about the history of gardens. His book of poems, "Out of Danger", was published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux. He won the 2015 PEN/Pinter Prize for poetry. The award, established by English PEN in memory of Nobel-Laureate mostrar más playwright Harold Pinter, is presented annually for outstanding literary merit by a British writer or writer resident in Britain. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Créditos de la imagen: Photo Credit: Gerrit Serné
Obras de James Fenton
The Love Bomb: and Other Musical Pieces; Haroun and the Sea of Stories; The Fall of Jerusalem (2003) 8 copias
A modern master 1 copia
A Vacant Possession 1 copia
"An Ardor for Armor" 1 copia
Obras relacionadas
Vida de Benvenuto Cellini Escrita Por El Mismo (1728) — Introducción, algunas ediciones — 2,540 copias
Know the Past, Find the Future: The New York Public Library at 100 (2011) — Contribuidor — 116 copias
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1949-04-25
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- England
UK - Lugar de nacimiento
- Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England, UK
- Lugares de residencia
- Lincolnshire, England, UK
Staffordshire, England, UK - Educación
- University of Oxford (Magdalen College)
Durham Choristers' School
Repton School, Derbyshire, England, UK - Ocupaciones
- poet
war correspondent
professor
literary critic - Relaciones
- Pinckney, Darryl (partner)
- Organizaciones
- Royal Society of Literature
Oxford University - Premios y honores
- Sir Roger Newdigate's Prize ( [1968])
Royal Society of Literature (fellow|1983)
Faber Memorial Prize (1984)
Royal Society of Arts (fellow|2003)
Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry ( [2007])
PEN Pinter prize (2015) - Agente
- Pat Kavanagh (PFD)
Miembros
Reseñas
Listas
Premios
También Puede Gustarte
Autores relacionados
Estadísticas
- Obras
- 27
- También por
- 25
- Miembros
- 1,030
- Popularidad
- #25,005
- Valoración
- 3.8
- Reseñas
- 17
- ISBNs
- 71
- Idiomas
- 4
- Favorito
- 7
Each of the essays here details Fenton's wanderings and adventures through revolutions, giving detailed pictures into rarely seen moments along the Pacific Rim--back and forth across enemy lines in Korea, Saigon just after its official fall, etc. Some of the moments are heartbreaking, and more of them than you'd expect are humorous, but Fenton's wry care with people and with expectations makes each piece a striking commentary on not just unfolding events, but humanity, politics, and journalism.
I'd absolutely recommend this to anyone interested in world events or history, or in revolution or journalism. Although it's true that the pieces are located in specific times and moments, it's terrifying how relevant some of them are to just this moment in time, and sort of wonderful to read about them in a way that is not just carefully observant and honest, as if one were reading Fenton's journal rather than essays, but also told with both intelligence and a tempered optimism that, one way or another, things keep going on, and people survive.
Absolutely recommended.… (más)