Helen Gardner (2) (1908–1986)
Autor(a) de The Metaphysical Poets
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Helen Gardner (2) foi considerado como pseudónimo de Helen Louise Gardner.
Obras por Helen Gardner
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Conhecimento Comum
- Nome legal
- Gardner, Helen Louise
- Data de nascimento
- 1908-02-13
- Data de falecimento
- 1986-06-04
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- UK
- Local de nascimento
- London, England, UK
- Local de falecimento
- Bicester, England, UK
- Locais de residência
- London, England, UK
Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK - Educação
- North London Collegiate School for Girls
Oxford University (St Hilda's College) - Ocupações
- literary critic
Merton Professor of English Literature(1908-1986)
literary scholar
professor - Prémios e menções honrosas
- Order of the British Empire (Dame Commander)
Fatal error: Call to undefined function isLitsy() in /var/www/html/inc_magicDB.php on line 425- Helen Gardner was born at Finchley in London, the daughter of a journalist. She studied English language and literature at Oxford University and remained unmarried. She became a specialist in late 16th and early 17th century poets, and was appointed as University Reader in Renaissance English Literature and then Merton Professor of English Literature at Oxford University. Professor
Gardner lectured around the world including in the USA and the Middle East. Known for her dominating manner and disinterest in feminism, Helen Gardner was the author of such works as The Metaphysical Poets (1957), The Business of Criticism (1959) and In Defence of Imagination (1982). She wrote a tribute to T.S. Eliot, whose work she much admired, entitled The Art of T.S. Eliot (1949). Prof. Gardner was created DBE (Dame Commander of the British Empire) by Queen Elizabeth II in 1967 in recognition of her contributions to literature.
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 10
- Also by
- 2
- Membros
- 2,029
- Popularidade
- #12,666
- Avaliação
- 4.1
- Críticas
- 4
- ISBN
- 229
- Línguas
- 3
The glosses provided for obscure words are too rare - this is particularly a problem with the earliest poems. The spelling has sometimes been modernised but sometimes not and it leaves some words very confusing and the whole poem near impossible to understand.
There are no meaningful notes on meaning or context and for many poems there's no comment on source. Poems aren't ever given a year of composition which makes context even harder to discern sometimes.
There's no contents or an index of poem titles - I realise this isn't always possible but it'd still be useful. There's just an index of poets and first lines. Which is useful! But sometimes you need other things too.
The book feels like it REALLY overweights earlier poets from Elizabethan times etc. There *feels* like there's fewer modern poets than you'd expect. Maybe I'm wrong on that. The entirety of the Wasteland is reproduced so that's something I guess. I dunno
I know books like these rarely have notes etc but still. It's hard for a poetry newbie to get into some of this stuff.
I didn't exactly finish but maybe read like 20%? Which I think isn't unreasonable. I find poetry hard to get into but yeah there are obviously good poems here. Not gonna rate because I can't really judge but keeping the above criticisms in mind it's probably not ideal if you're not good with poetry… (mais)