Bernard O'Donoghue: Poetry: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) [2019] paperback ZHUMR I really like the writer's

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both of the world around him and within - his frailties and his strengths alike

Her characters leap off the page

Williams inhabited a slew of indelible roles that he portrayed with a rawness and vulnerability that leapt off the screen

her brother Giles Barrington and their arch enemy Lady Virginia when a suicide note is read out in court

Bernard O'Donoghue: Poetry: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) [2019] paperback ZHUMR I really like the writer'sPoetry, arguably, has a greater range of conceptual meaning than perhaps any other term in English. At the most basic level everyone can recognise it it is a kind of literature that uses special linguistic devices of organization and expression for aesthetic effect. However, far grander claims have been made for poetry than this such as Shelley's that the poets 'are the unacknowledged legislators of the world', and that poetry is 'a higher truth'. In