Resultaten voor 'vernon watkins'

1. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Selected Poems

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) was one of the greatest artists of the German Romantic period. He was a poet, playwright, novelist, and natural philosopher. Christopher Middleton (1926–2015) was a British poet and translator whose books include The Anti-Basilisk and Jackdaw Jiving: Selected Essays on Poetry and Translation.

1. Vernon Watkins

Poems for Dylan

1. Vernon Watkins

Fidelities

Vernon Watkins (1906-1967) was born in Maesteg, South Wales. He was a part of the cryptography team that broke the enigma code. After the war he spent most of his career as a cashier at Lloyds Bank in Cardiff but published eight books of poetry during his lifetime. Fidelities was written while he was a Visiting Professor at the University of Washington in Seattle, and was published posthumously. His close friends included W.B. Yeats, T.S. Eliot, Philip Larkin, Dylan Thomas, and Kathleene Raine, who called him “the greatest lyric poet of my generation.” Watkins was being considered for poet laureate at the time of his death.

1. Vernon Watkins

Vernon Watkins

Vernon Watkins was a great lyric poet. This work offers a selection of his poetry since his death, with an introduction and notes, outlining the literary and biographical context of his work, and a foreword by Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury.