Glyn Maxwell
Autor de On Poetry
Sobre El Autor
Glyn Maxwell was born in 1962 in Hertfordshire, England. He studied English at Oxford & poetry at Boston University. Among the honors he has received are the Somerset Maugham Prize & the E.M. Forster Prize. He now lives with his wife & their daughter in Massachusetts, where he teaches at Amherst mostrar más College. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Créditos de la imagen: Credit: David Shankbone, 2007
Obras de Glyn Maxwell
Mortification (ROBERTSON) 1 copia
Mortifications (ROBERTSON) 1 copia
Mozart's The Magic Flute : New English version by Glyn Maxwell [programme and libretto] (2017) — Librettist — 1 copia
Obras relacionadas
Poetry Speaks Expanded: Hear Poets Read Their Own Work from Tennyson to Plath (2007) — Contribuidor — 151 copias
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre canónico
- Maxwell, Glyn
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1962-11-07
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- England
UK - Lugar de nacimiento
- Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, England, UK
- Lugares de residencia
- Islington, London, England, UK
New York, New York, USA - Educación
- University of Oxford (Worcester College)
Boston University - Ocupaciones
- teacher
poet
playwright
librettist - Premios y honores
- E. M. Forster Award (1997)
Somerset Maugham Prize, Society of Authors, 1992
Miembros
Debates
The Gambler en Fans of Russian authors (junio 2009)
Reseñas
Listas
Premios
También Puede Gustarte
Autores relacionados
Estadísticas
- Obras
- 32
- También por
- 6
- Miembros
- 495
- Popularidad
- #49,936
- Valoración
- 3.7
- Reseñas
- 11
- ISBNs
- 62
- Idiomas
- 1
Then I hated it by page 13, when he puts poets on a pedestal above pop musicians. "Songwriters stir up a living tradition, poets make flowers grow in the air." But I continued on, and by the end of the book I realized I had come to it with the expectation that it was a poetry primer, when it was in fact one man's experience and opinions about poetry. Once I understood that, and shed my preconceptions, I settled in and listened.
Overall not exactly my bag, but good enough and interesting enough that I finished it. If you like reading a poet waxing poetic about poetry, then you will probably like this book.… (más)