{"product_id":"9780330453776-shades-of-the-sublime-beautiful","title":"Shades of the Sublime \u0026 Beautiful","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA new collection from an innovative and visionary Australian poet\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAustralian John Kinsella is one of the most highly regarded poets currently writing in English. Taking Edmund Burke’s 250-year old masterpiece \u003ci\u003eA Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful \u003c\/i\u003eas his template, Kinsella has produced his most accomplished and broadly representative work to date. \u003ci\u003eShades of the Sublime \u0026amp; Beautiful \u003c\/i\u003eis a warm, human, anecdotally rich book, concentrating many of the themes that have obsessed its author over the last twenty years: language, love, the invocation of place, the mysteries of the Australian wilderness, and our mediations between the human and natural realms. Together, these lyric meditations build towards a profound thesis on the ecology of the imagination, and are always conducted in concrete, vivid and exuberant language that is unmistakably Kinsella’s own.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ‘Kinsella’s poems are a very rare feat: they are narratives of feeling. Vivid sight – of landscapes, of animals, of human forms in distant light – becomes insight. There is, often, the shock of the new. But somehow awaited, even familiar. Which is the homecoming of a true poet’ George Steiner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ‘John Kinsella is an Orphic fountain, a prodigy of the imagination . he frequently makes me think of John Ashbery: improbable fecundity, eclecticism, and a stand that fuses populism and elitism in poetic audience’ Harold Bloom\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56449619034486,"sku":"9780330453776","price":7.38,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_26942745.jpg?v=1760446170","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780330453776-shades-of-the-sublime-beautiful","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}