Against Oblivion: Some Lives of the Twentieth-Century Poets
Paying homage to Samuel Johnson's Lives of the Poets, this work offers an account of 20th-century-English-language poetry, viewed through the lives and works of some of its principal exponents. There are towering figures such as Larkin, Eliot, and Auden, as well as more minor talents, for example Stevie Smith. The text also includes writers who illustrate interesting aspects of poetry, with Allen Ginsberg a prime example.
GenresEnglish poetry20th centuryHistory and criticismPoets, EnglishBiographyAmerican poetry
336 pages, 3 editions
English edition · First published 2002 by Penguin · ISBN 9780140177640
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Editions
3 editions
English
- Against Oblivion: Some Lives of the Twentieth-Century Poets · Penguin · 2003 · ISBN 9780140177640 This page
- Against Oblivion: Some Lives of the Twentieth-Century Poets · Faber & Faber · 2012 · ISBN 9780571288861
- Against Oblivion: Some Lives of the Twentieth-Century Poets · Viking · 2002 · ISBN 9780670849093
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