The Music of Time: Poetry in the Twentieth Century by John Burnside Louis De Paor and the Scholar gathers two

and the Scholar gathers two decades’ worth of Helen Vendler’s essays

and covers closely relevant historical contexts

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The book's introduction is split between Rodney Pybus

The Music of Time: Poetry in the Twentieth Century by John Burnside Louis De Paor and the Scholar gathers twoThough we might not realise it, our collective memory of the twentieth century was defined by the poets who lived and wrote in it. At every significant turning point we find them, pen in hand, fingers poised at the typewriter, ready to distil the essence of the moment, from the muddy wastes of the Western front to the vast reckoning that came with the end of empire. This is the first and only history of twentieth century poetry, by the acclaimed poet,