Glyn Maxwell
Author
Language
English
Description
A spirited homage to the departed literary greats-set in an entrancing English village-this novel tells the tale of a profound autumn term with Poe, Yeats, Whitman, Dickinson, and the Brontës.
"I am walking along a country lane with no earthly idea why..."
Poet Glyn Maxwell wakes up in a mysterious village one autumn day. He has no idea how he got there-is he dead? In a coma? Dreaming?-but he has a strange feeling there's a class to teach. And...
5) On poetry
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"This is a book for anyone," Glyn Maxwell declares of On Poetry. A guide to the writing of poetry and a defense of the art, it will be especially prized by writers and readers who wish to understand why and how poetic technique matters. When Maxwell states, "With rhyme what matters is the distance between rhymes" or "the line-break is punctuation," he compresses into simple, memorable phrases a great deal of practical wisdom.
In seven chapters......
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Poet Glynn Maxwell wakes up in a mysterious village one autumn day. He has no idea how he got there; is he dead? In a coma? Dreaming?--but he has a strange feeling there's a class to teach. And isn't that the poet Keats wandering down the lane? Why not ask him to give a reading, do a Q&A, hit the pub with the students afterword? Soon the whole of the autumn term stretches ahead, with Byron, Yeats, and Emily Dickinson, the Brontës, the Brownings,...