His poems are among the best in the English language this century.

Hugh Kenner

Charles Tomlinson

Charles Tomlinson read English at Queens College, Cambridge, has lived in Nothern Italy and London, and has recently retired after thirty-six years of teaching at the University of Bristol. In 1993 he received the Bennett Award For Achievement in Literature from The Hudson Review of New York, and in 1991 the Premio Europeo di Cittadella. He is the editor of the classic anthology The Oxford Book of Verse in English Translation, and is a translator of Octavio Paz and Bertolucci. He presently resides in Gloucester, England.

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Selected Poems of Charles Tomlinson

Presenting Charles Tomlinson’s finest poems, this edition of Selected Poems provides perfect entry into the work of one of England’s contemporary masters. Rendering with remarkable precision the response of the poet to the surfaces and depths of things as well as the world of historical necessity, Tomlinson’s poems embody aspects of both tragedy and possibility. William Carlos Williams once said, “[Tomlinson’s poetry] gives a refreshing rustle or seething to the words which bespeak the entrance of a new life.” Finally, here is the long-awaited compendium of the work of one of this century’s great poets.

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His poems are among the best in the English language this century.

Hugh Kenner
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