PENGUIN MODERN POETS 6 - Biographical Notes and Poetry Contents

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Penguin Modern Poets 6 presents author introductions and a detailed table of contents for multiple poets and their selections. The volume profiles Jack Clemo, Edward Lucie-Smith, and George MacBeth, outlining key life details, publications, editorial work, and public roles. It then lists poem titles across sections, including works such as “A Calvinist in Love,” “A Tropical Childhood,” and “The Return,” alongside acknowledgements and notes, creating a curated reading path through modern poetry.

LanguageEnglish

CategoryLiterature

FormatPDF

Pages132

Reading Time3 h 23 min

AccessFree to download

Contents

Acknowledgements

Jack Clemo

A Calvinist in Love

The Water-Wheel

Christ in the Clay-Pit

The Excavator

Sufficiency

Clay-Land Moods

A Kindred Battlefield

The Two Beds

Thorn in the Flesh

Reclaimed

Intimate Landscape

Clay Phoenix

Lunar Pentecost

Beyond Lourdes

The Veiled Sitter

Outsider

Service to England

Confessional

The Leper

The New Creation

Edward Lucie-Smith

A Tropical Childhood

The Polo Player

The Lime-Tree

The Lesson

George MacBeth

The Return

The Son

Mother Superior

Early Warning

Bedtime Story

The God of Love

The Killing

A Dirge

Report to the Director

Drop

The Disciple

The Crucifix

Scissor-Man

A Child's Garden

The Beast

Owl

Notes

PENGUIN MODERN POETS 6 Jack Clemo Edward Lucie-SmithGeorge MacBeth 七3 # PENGUIN MODERN POETS 6 JACK CLEMo was born in r916 at Goonamarris,near St Austell,Cornwall,where he has lived all his life.The son ofa clay-kiln worker,he received only a village school education.He began publishingstories and verse in his early teens and devoted himself entirely towriting in the vein of a hermit mystic.His first published novelWilding Graft,won an Atlantic Award in Literature from BirminghamUniversity in I948.It was followed by two volumes of spiritualautobiography,Confession of a Rebel(1949)and The Invading Gospel(I958),and three collections of poems which were reissued in onevolume,The Map of Clay,in I96r.He had earlier been awarded anArts Council Festival Poetry Prize,and in I96r he was given a CivilList pension.He has been blind since 1955,but a further collection ofhis poems,Cactus on Carmel,was published in 1967,and in I968 hemarried Ruth Peaty. EDWARD LuCIE-SMITH was born in Jamaica in I933.His threepublished books of verse are A Tropical Childbood(1961),Confessionsand Histories(I964)and Towards Silence(I968).He has edited threeanthologies for Penguins:The Penguin Book of Elizabetban Verse,ThePenguin Book of Satirical Verse and Britisb Poetry Since the War(forth-coming),and his anthologies for other publishers include A GroupAnthology(edited with Philip Hobsbaum),The Liverpool Scene andHolding Your Eigbt Hands:A Book of SF Verse.He has also written anumber of books on art.He is well known as an art critic and literaryjournalist,and as a professional rocker of boats'. GEORGE MACBETH was born in Scotland in I932 and educated inYorkshire and at Oxford.He now works for the B.B.C.and is afrequent broadcaster in poetry programmes.His books of poemsinclude The Broken Places(I963),A Doomsday Book(I965),TheColour of Blood(I967),The Night of Stones(I968)and AWar Quartet(I969).He has edited Poetry r900-1965,as well as The Penguin Book ofSick Verse,The Penguin Book of Animal Verse and The Penguin Book ofVictorian Verse.His cabaret The Doomsday Sbow was performed at theEstablishment Clubin 1964,and the text is tobepublished by Penguins.George MacBeth believes in the direct transmission of poetry by thespoken voice,and he has given readings of his own verse to audiencesthroughout the country. JACK CLEMO EDWARD LUCIE-SMITH GEORGE MACBETH Penguin Books Penguin Books Ltd,Harmondsworth,Middlesex,England Penguin Books InCc.,7IIO Ambassador Road,Baltimore,Maryland 2Y207,U.SA.Penguin Books Australia Ltd,Ringwood,Victoria,Australia 一 This selection first published I964Reprinted r967,I969,I970一 Copyright ◎Penguin Books I964 一 Made and printed in Great Britainby Cox &Wyman Ltd.,London,Reading and Fakenham一 Cover based ona photograph by Roger MayneThis book is sold sabject to the conditionthat it shall not,by way of trade or otherwise,be lent,re-sold,hired out,or otherwise circulatedwithout the publisher's prior consent in any form ofbinding or cover other than that in which it ispublished and without a similar conditionincluding this condition being imposedon the subsequent purchaser Contents Acknowledgements9JACK CLEMO A Calvinist in LoveI3The Water-WheelI5Christ in the Clay-PitI6The ExcavatorI8Sufficiency2IClay-Land Moods2.2A Kindred Battlefield 24The Two Beds26Thorn in the Flesh28Reclaimed30Intimate Landscape3IClay Phoenix32Lunar Pentecost34Beyond Lourdes36The Veiled Sitter38Outsider 40Service to England42Confessional43The Leper44The New Creation45EDWARD LUCIE-SMITHA Tropical Childhood49The Polo Player50The Lime-Tree5I # The Lesson Aubade5253Rabbit Cry54The Drill-Sergeant55The Portrait56A Prophet on the Underground57The Hymn TunesBad Dreams in AthensCardinal Bird 585960 At the Roman Baths,Bath6rOn Looking at Stubbs's Anatomy of the Horse62To be Justified63A Sort of Sickness64Imperialists in Retirement65Thou67Pietà 6869 # A Feast for the EyesAbsentThe Room 70 The Madness of Charles VI72Meditat

FAQs

Which poets are introduced in Penguin Modern Poets 6?

The volume includes introductions for Jack Clemo, Edward Lucie-Smith, and George MacBeth.

What kinds of materials does the book include besides poem titles?

It includes an acknowledgements section, author biographical notes, and a notes section, along with a structured contents list of poem selections.

How is the contents organized across the book?

The table of contents groups entries by poet, listing poem titles in a sequence under each author’s heading, and includes standalone section headings like “The Lesson” and “A Feast for the Eyes.”

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