Train Songs
Poetry of the Railway
(Sprache: Englisch)
Train Songs , edited by Don Paterson and Sean O'Brien, collects the results of the huge and various inspiration that trains have offered to poets from Wordsworth to Hugo Williams
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Train Songs , edited by Don Paterson and Sean O'Brien, collects the results of the huge and various inspiration that trains have offered to poets from Wordsworth to Hugo Williams
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'This is the night mail crossing the border,Bringing the cheque and the postal order...'
-- W.H. Auden
Wordsworth was the first laureate of locomotives: in fact he railed against them, and against the consequent opening up of the Lakes to holiday hordes ('On the Projected Kendal and Windermere Railway'). His dismay was echoed down the decades by disturbed ruralists, and yet the train has become part of our psychic landscape: some of the best-loved English poems - Edward Thomas's 'Adlestrop', or Philip Larkin's 'Whitsun Weddings' - have celebrated carriages, platforms and waiting rooms, while locomotion has inspired some of the most characteristic poetry of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Stevenson, Hardy and MacNeice, Betjeman and Auden (whose 'Night Mail' was written to accompany a 1930s GPO documentary about the postal express from Euston to Glasgow).
Co-edited by two of our most distinguished poets, Train Songs offers a round tour - from Wordsworth to Hugo Williams and beyond - starting from the poetry of departures and brief encounters, but taking in the American Blues, the troop trains of two world wars, and the addiction to speed which characterised the European revolutions. Trains have carried the freight of history from the Industrial Revolution onwards - the Armstice in 1918 was signed in a railway carriage, the death camps were organised around train timetables - and this new anthology shows how the train in all its forms has exercised a unique hold upon our collective unconscious.
Autoren-Porträt
Don Paterson was born in Dundee in 1963. His previous poetry collections include Nil Nil , God's Gift to Women , Landing Light and Rain . He has also published two books of aphorism, as well as translations of Antonio Machado and Rainer Maria Rilke. His poetry has won many awards, including the Whitbread Poetry Prize, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, the Costa Poetry Award, and all three Forward Prizes; he is currently the only poet to have won the T. S. Eliot Prize twice. He was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 2009. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, the English Association and the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and is currently Professor of Poetry at the University of St Andrews. Since 1997 he has been poetry editor at Picador Macmillan, and he also works as a jazz musician and composer. He lives in Edinburgh.
Bibliographische Angaben
- 2014, 192 Seiten, Maße: 12,6 x 19,9 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Herausgegeben: Sean O'brien, Don Paterson
- Verlag: Faber & Faber, London
- ISBN-10: 057131578X
- ISBN-13: 9780571315789
- Erscheinungsdatum: 05.05.2014
Sprache:
Englisch
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