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Helen Louise Gardner (1908–1986)

Teoksen The Metaphysical Poets tekijä

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Tekijän teokset

The Metaphysical Poets (1957) 936 kappaletta
Art of T. S. Eliot (1950) 136 kappaletta
The Faber Book of Religious Verse (1972) 46 kappaletta
The Composition of Four Quartets (1656) 41 kappaletta
The Business of Criticism (1959) 23 kappaletta
In Defence of the Imagination (1982) 15 kappaletta
Religion and literature (1971) 14 kappaletta
"King Lear" (1967) 1 kappale

Associated Works

The Poems of George Herbert (1907) — Johdanto, eräät painokset106 kappaletta
The Divine Poems of John Donne (1966) — Toimittaja — 38 kappaletta
Elegies and The Songs and Sonnets (Oxford Scholarly Classics) (1965) — Toimittaja, eräät painokset26 kappaletta
T.S. Eliot (Bloom's Major Poets) (1999) — Avustaja — 12 kappaletta
The Penguin New Writing No. 31 (1947) — Avustaja — 12 kappaletta
Selected Essays (1976) — Esipuhe — 8 kappaletta
Shakespearian and other studies (1969) — Toimittaja — 3 kappaletta

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Virallinen nimi
Gardner, Dame Helen Louise
Syntymäaika
1908-02-13
Kuolinaika
1986-06-04
Sukupuoli
female
Kansalaisuus
UK
Syntymäpaikka
Finchley, London, England, UK
Kuolinpaikka
Bicester, Oxfordshire, England, UK
Asuinpaikat
Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, UK
London, England, UK
Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
Koulutus
North London Collegiate School
Oxford University (St Hilda's College)
Ammatit
literary critic
Merton Professor of English Literature
Organisaatiot
Oxford University
Palkinnot ja kunnianosoitukset
Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (1967)
American Academy of Arts and Sciences (Foreign Honorary Member, 1971)
Royal Academy
Royal Society of Literature
Lyhyt elämäkerta
Helen Louise Gardner was born in London, England. She attended North London Collegiate School and then Oxford University, where she earned her BA in 1929 and MA in 1935. She became one of the most important literary critics of the 20th century. She began her academic career at the University of Birmingham with a temporary post as assistant lecturer from 1930 to 1931. Following three years as an assistant lecturer at Royal Holloway College in London, she returned to Birmingham as a member of the faculty of the English Department. She became a tutor at Oxford in 1941 and was a fellow of her alma mater St. Hilda's College from 1942 to 1966, as well as University Reader in Renaissance English Literature. From 1966 to 1975, Gardner was the Merton Professor of English Literature, the first woman to hold that position, and a Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall. She was best known for her work on the poets John Donne and T.S. Eliot, but also published on John Milton and William Shakespeare. She wrote and edited more than a dozen books, monographs, critical editions, and anthologies that influenced the views of many readers on British poetry, particularly poetry from the late 16th to the early 17th centuries. She was appointed as CBE in 1962 and as Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1967. She was elected to the Royal Academy and the Royal Society of Literature and in 1971, she was named a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Dame Helen's authority is featured in Margaret Edson's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit.

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I cannot comment on the poetry content because I am bad at poetry but I'll say a few things about the anthology.

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
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tombomp | 3 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Oct 31, 2023 |
A superior collection, in my mind, to the original Oxford Book of English Verse edited by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch.
 
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Fledgist | 3 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Dec 26, 2006 |
Not a revision of Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch's classic selection, but a new anthology. The editor explains in her Preface why she deliberately did not include American poets, with the one exception of Ezra Pound.
 
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gibbon | 3 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Nov 29, 2005 |
If one had to say where can you find in fewer than 1,000 pages the best of English poetry, here it is. Daily Telegraph

`by far the most balanced and most wide-ranging [anthology] we have, offering superlative value to almost every taste' The Times

`Dame Helen has seen through this enormous task with affection, wit and wonderful thoroughness.' Times Literary Supplement

`Her knowledge of English poetry is both extensive and intensive; her critical standards are eminently worthy of respect...The reading public has every reason to be grateful to her.' Critical Quarterly

`The book remains a continuous and rewarding pleasure...It is a cause of wonder how easily poems of the recent past fit with those written centuries ago without jarring or disturbance.' New York Times
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antimuzak | 3 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Sep 13, 2008 |

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