Review: The Secret Life of Poems: A Poetry Primer by Tom Paulin
Literature Terry Eagleton spots a familiar political agenda in a passionate account of poetry
The Secret Life of Poems: A Poetry Primer
by Tom Paulin
320pp, Faber, £17.99
Poetry is the most subtle of the literary arts, and students grow more ingenious by the year at avoiding it. If they can nip around Milton, duck under Blake and collapse gratefully into the arms of Jane Austen, a lot of them will. Besides, unlike Sense and Sensibility, Paradise Lost hasn't been on television. With fiction...
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