Lucasta Miller

Where are Yeats, Eliot and Plath in a new survey of 20th-century poetry?

John Burnside’s idiosyncratic book is the reverse of Anglocentric, concentrating on foreign works from as far afield as Argentina and Singapore

issue 05 October 2019
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  • The Music of Time: Poetry in the Twentieth Century

    John Burnside

    Profile, pp. 477, £25

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