Title: - Scanning The Century
The Penguin Book of the Twentieth Century in Poetry
Author: - Edited Peter Forbes
Publisher: - Penguin
Year: - 1999
Format: - Paperback
Notes: - 1st Edition
Condition: - This book is pre owned and therefore may show
some signs of use. Overall this book is in an acceptable condition. This book looks as though a cup of coffee or similar was spilt over part of it.
The cover has some light marks and light creasing, the inside of the rear cover has a stain. Most of the pages are clear, there is a little tanning discolouration to the inner page edges, all pages are readable, from page 364 to 431 all pages have varying degrees of staining to the top corner, The Last 3rd of the book has a ripple to the pages.
There maybe some general wear from use.
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Language: - English
Book Content: - Drawing on poetry written in English and on European poetry in translation, this unique anthology tells the story of the century in verse - primarily the story of world events but also of social changes, technical developments and ways of thinking and behaving. There are sections on The Jazz Age (Mayakovsky, Eliot), Work (Betjeman, Elizabeth Bishop), the Sixties (Dylan, Adrian Mitchell), the Holocaust (Primo Levi), All the Lonely People (Larkin, Frost, Lennon/McCartney), and many more. The 20th century has been a great age of poetry - this book uses poetry itself to throw light on the century.
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