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Visit www.penguin.co.uk
or www.fsgbooks.com
for more information or to order.
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D. H. Lawrence -- Selected Poems
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James Fenton has edited a new
edition of D. H. Lawrence's poems for Penguin. To purchase the
collection, please visit the publisher's website at www.penguin.co.uk.
It is also available from Amazon.co.uk.
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Ian McEwan on James Fenton
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"There is a strong case to be made that James Fenton is the
finest poet writing in English. His technical virtuosity is beyond
doubt; his long experience as war correspondent, journalist and
traveller has given him an unmatched range of subject matter -
war and revolution, the dementia of collective passions, reflections
on fate, and love - he has written some of the most beautiful
love poems of our times. He is a poet of great emotional depth
and wisdom. Increasingly, his work has a strong connection with
song. He also has a taste for light verse of exquisite charm and
humour. He is a modern master."
-- Ian McEwan, responding to a question from the National
Book Critics Circle
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James Fenton was born in Lincoln in 1949 and educated at Magdalen College,
Oxford where he won the Newdigate Prize for poetry. He has worked as political
journalist, drama critic, book reviewer, war correspondent, foreign correspondent
and columnist. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and was
Oxford Professor of Poetry for the period 1994-99. In 2007, Fenton was
awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry.
Fenton's Selected
Poems is published by Penguin
and Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
He is also the editor of The New
Faber Book of Love Poems and D.
H. Lawrence's Selected Poems (Penguin).
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Fenton on Kingsley Amis
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 'Kingsley
Amis: Against Fakery.' In The Movement Reconsidered: Essays
on Larkin, Amis, Gunn, Davie, and Their Contemporaries. Ed.
Zachary Leader. Oxford University Press, 2009. 106-122. (Order
from OUP in the UK,
US,
or Canada)
From the Publisher:
The Movement Reconsidered, a collection
of original essays by distinguished poets, critics, and scholars
from Britain and America, sets out to show not only that relations
between Movement and other post-war British writers were more
complex and nuanced than is usually suggested, but that the
role these relations played in shaping the current literary
scene is important and complicated. Other topics it examines
include the origins of the grouping; the role of mediating figures
such as Auden, Empson, and Orwell; the part the writers themselves
played in promoting the grouping; the interlocking network of
academics, journalists, and editors who aided them; and analogous
developments in other fields, notably philosophy, politics,
and language. The book's ultimate aim is to encourage readers
to come to Movement writing with fresh eyes and to gain a fairer
sense of its range and power.
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Fenton on Hazlitt
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 'Jazzing
Up Hazlitt', New York Review of Books 56.11 (2 July
2009) [Rev. of William Hazlitt: The First Modern Man, by
Duncan Wu; New Writings of William Hazlitt, edited by Duncan
Wu; and Hazlitt in Love: A Fatal Attachment, by Jon Cook].
Note: Full text access limited to subscribers or purchasers of
the article.
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Eric Ambler's Epitaph for
a Spy
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 Fenton
writes the introduction for Eric Ambler's Epitaph for a Spy,
published by Penguin.
From the Introduction:
"The job he did on the spy novel -- this
is the way he described it years later, in old age, when I interviewed
him at his home in Switzerland -- was to take a generally disprized
and trashy genre and mike it a thing of some quality."
To purchase, please visit the publisher's website
at www.penguin.co.uk.
It is also available from Amazon.co.uk.
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Pictures from an Exhibition
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 Sadler’s
Wells and the Young Vic present a trail-blazing dance theatre
collaboration inspired by, and set to, Modest Mussorgsky’s
classic piano suite Pictures from an Exhibition.Directed by Daniel
Kramer with text by James Fenton.
Beneath the surface of Modest Mussorgsky's classical
composition, Kramer and Requardt uncover a rich seam of emotion.
The most powerful urges of worship and domination, love and loss,
death and commemoration burst out of the music and onto the stage
in a beautiful nightmare.
More information is available from
The
Young Vic website.
Watch a breathtaking video of the
show on YouTube.
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