Glyn Maxwell
Auteur van On Poetry
Over de Auteur
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 toon meer College. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
Fotografie: Credit: David Shankbone, 2007
Werken van Glyn Maxwell
Mortification (ROBERTSON) 1 exemplaar
Mortifications (ROBERTSON) 1 exemplaar
Mozart's The Magic Flute : New English version by Glyn Maxwell [programme and libretto] (2017) — Librettist — 1 exemplaar
Gerelateerde werken
Poetry Speaks Expanded: Hear Poets Read Their Own Work from Tennyson to Plath (2007) — Medewerker — 151 exemplaren
Tagged
Algemene kennis
- Gangbare naam
- Maxwell, Glyn
- Geboortedatum
- 1962-11-07
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- England
UK - Geboorteplaats
- Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, England, UK
- Woonplaatsen
- Islington, London, England, UK
New York, New York, USA - Opleiding
- University of Oxford (Worcester College)
Boston University - Beroepen
- teacher
poet
playwright
librettist - Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- E. M. Forster Award (1997)
Somerset Maugham Prize, Society of Authors, 1992
Leden
Discussies
The Gambler in Fans of Russian authors (juni 2009)
Besprekingen
Lijsten
Prijzen
Misschien vindt je deze ook leuk
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Statistieken
- Werken
- 32
- Ook door
- 6
- Leden
- 495
- Populariteit
- #49,936
- Waardering
- 3.7
- Besprekingen
- 11
- ISBNs
- 62
- Talen
- 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.… (meer)