Author : Kingsley Amis
Release : 2016-06-21
Genre : Poetry
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 661/5 ( reviews)
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Book Synopsis Collected Poems by : Kingsley Amis
Download or read book Collected Poems written by Kingsley Amis. This book was released on 2016-06-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kingsley Amis’s poetry tackles all the grimly humorous subjects he tackled in his novels—lust, lost love, booze, money and the lack of it, old age, death—and does so with immense formal poise. A master of both traditional and unconventional meters with a perfect ear for parody, Amis wrote satires, epigrams, and rueful and scornful songs that are remarkable not only for their virtuosity and humor but for their scabrous realism. It all adds up to a small, entirely individual, and memorably bracing body of work. As Amis writes: “Beauty, they tell me, is a dangerous thing, / Whose touch will burn, but I’m asbestos, see?”