George MacBeth (1932–1992)
Autor(a) de The New Poetry
About the Author
Born in the Scots mining village of Shotts but educated at King Edward VII School in Sheffield, Yorkshire, George MacBeth graduated with first-class honors from New College, Oxford. In the late 1950's, he belonged to The Group, an informal association of young writers, mostly poets, which in 1965 mostrar mais became the more structured Writers' Workshop. For 21 years, beginning in 1955, MacBeth produced programs on poetry and the arts for the BBC. Both the oral presentations of The Group and the BBC broadcasts whetted MacBeth's interest in the oral aspect of his own work. He has published numerous volumes of poetry, along with plays and (beginning in 1975) novels. A prolific poet, MacBeth has worked in an almost chameleonlike variety of forms and styles. This eclecticism has made it difficult to establish a distinctive voice, yet his different styles have influenced numerous contemporaries in England. He has also tried to keep his poems accessible to the general public, and has achieved a reasonably wide popularity. Sometimes didactic, MacBeth often treats his subjects---death and life, war and love, tradition and the present day---with a linguistic playfulness that delights in the resources of language itself. His rephrasing of John Keats's "Ode on a Grecian Urn" and pseudotranslations of Chinese poetry are memorably comic. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Séries
Obras de George MacBeth
Crab-apple Crisis 2 cópias
Noah's journey 1 exemplar(es)
Fast car wash [short fiction 1 exemplar(es)
The screens 1 exemplar(es)
A Doomsday Book: Poems and Poem-games 1 exemplar(es)
The Silver Needle {short story} 1 exemplar(es)
The broken places : poems 1 exemplar(es)
Penguin Book of Animal Verse 1 exemplar(es)
Associated Works
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome de batismo
- MacBeth, George Mann
- Data de nascimento
- 1932-01-19
- Data de falecimento
- 1992-02-16
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- UK
- Local de nascimento
- Shotts, Lancashire, England, UK
- Local de falecimento
- Tuam, County Galway, Ireland
- Causa da morte
- motor neurone disease
- Locais de residência
- Shotts, Lancashire, England, UK (birth)
London, England, UK
Tuam, County Galway, Ireland (death) - Educação
- Oxford University (New College)
- Ocupação
- radio producer
poet
editor
novelist - Relacionamentos
- St Aubin de Terán, Lisa (wife)
- Organizações
- 'The Group'
- Premiações
- Geoffrey Faber Memorial Award
Membros
Resenhas
Prêmios
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Associated Authors
Estatísticas
- Obras
- 53
- Also by
- 14
- Membros
- 884
- Popularidade
- #28,975
- Avaliação
- 3.6
- Resenhas
- 5
- ISBNs
- 81
- Idiomas
- 2
The title and lurid cover of this pocket paperback had me thinking it would have more occult content than it does. There is one somewhat tawdry ceremonial episode in the eleventh chapter, but the plot revolves around international oil politics, elite prostitution, clandestine pharmaceuticals, and personal revenge. Characters, including the protagonist, are largely unsympathetic. The intelligence establishment and political players are corrupt. The criminal antagonists are fanatical and often myopic.
Author Macbeth disdains the use of punctuation to indicate dialogue, and does a fine job of identifying it through context. All of the action takes place over a single week, although there is a fair amount of reference back to events in the previous Cadbury book, as well as a scene-setting prologue that takes place prior to Cadbury's bygone recruitment.
This book wasn't a chore to read, but I doubt that I will bother with either its predecessor or its sequel.… (mais)