Walking Wounded
The Life and Poetry of Vernon Scannell
This uncompromising biography tells the story of a wounded D-Day veteran, a deserter, a violent drunk, a loving father who abandoned his first child, a boxer and brawler, a wife-beater, a bigamist, and a passionately romantic lover. It is also, most importantly, the story of a poet.Vernon Scannell wrote some of the finest poetry to come out of the Second World War. He won the Chomondeley Prize and the Heinemann Award, and for half a century he was acknowledged as one of the leading poets in the country. His Collected Poems are still in print, and his poetry for both adults and children is regularly anthologised and appears on English Literatu…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-19-150169-2
- EAN: 9780191501692
- Produktnummer: 16977699
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 6'400 KB
- Abbildungen: 40 black-and-white halftones
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Andrew Taylor is the author of ten books, including biographies of the Arabian traveller Charles Doughty and the 16th Century cartographer Gerard Mercator, as well as books on language, literature, poetry and, history. He studied English Literature at Oxford University and worked as a Fleet Street and BBC television journalist in London and the Middle East before returning to Britain in the 1990s to concentrate on his writing career.
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