Saving from the Wreck: Essays on Poetry

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Trent, 2001 - 202 pages
This rich collection of Peter Porter's critical essays on poetry covers such subjects as the Earl of Rochester, Christopher Smart, George Crabbe, Robert Browning, Wallace Stevens, and John Ashbery.

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Contents

POETRY AND MADNESS
1
SAVING FROM THE WRECK
23
THE SHAPE OF POETRY AND THE SHAPE OF MUSIC
49
Copyright

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About the author (2001)

Peter Porter was born in Brisbane, Australia on February 16, 1929. He moved to London in 1951 and worked as a bookseller and in advertising before writing on poetry for the Observer. In 1961, he published his first collection of poems, Once Bitten, Twice Bitten. His other works include The Cost of Seriousness, Better Than God, and Max is Missing, which won the Forward prize in 2001. His other awards include the Duff Cooper prize, the Whitbread poetry award, and the Queen's Gold Medal for poetry. He died on April 23, 2010 at the age of 81.

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