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OverviewWHEN, five years and five books of fiction ago, THE CARPENTERED HEN, John Updike's first collection of verse, was published, Phyllis McGinley wrote: I have been happily reading Mr. Updike in The New Yorker for some time and am happy, now, to own him collected. When he first appeared in that magazine, I was so elated to see a new name in light verse that I felt like crying with the Ancient Mariner 'A Sail, A Sail!' His is what poetry of this sort exactly out to be-playful but elegant, sharp-eyed, witty. In the Saturday Review, David McCord wrote: Furthermore, he is a graceful border-crosser (light verse to poem) as Auden has been; as Betjeman and McGinley frequently are. This second collection is equally divided between poems that, in their verbal jugglery and humorous bias, seem to qualify as light and poems that, one way or other, cross the problematic border into the general realm of poetry. The distinction cannot be clear-cut. The poet is consistently concerned with Man's cosmic embarrassment, and the same vision illuminates the creatures of The High Hearts and Seagulls. Science and religion, so frequently and variously invoked, frame a single paradox, the paradox of the mundane; and each poem, whether inspired by an antic headline or a suburban landscape, rejoices in the elusive surface of created things. Full Product DetailsAuthor: John UpdikePublisher: Random House USA Inc Imprint: Random House USA Inc Dimensions: Width: 13.60cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 21.00cm Weight: 0.254kg ISBN: 9780394404578ISBN 10: 0394404572 Publication Date: 12 August 1963 Audience: Children/juvenile , Children / Juvenile Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Out of Stock Indefinitely Availability: Awaiting stock Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |