{"product_id":"9781857546163-revolutionary-sonnets","title":"Revolutionary Sonnets and Other Poems","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Revolutionary Sonnets and Other Poems\" explores themes of violence and love, pretensions and emotion, sex and war and is both sobering and funny.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eRedesigned and reissued in 2017 to celebrate the 'Burgess Centenary' - 100 years of Anthony Burgess\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e               \u003cem\u003eRevolutionary Sonnets and Other Poems\u003c\/em\u003e captures the full range and achievement of Anthony Burgess's poetry and verse. It is as daring, original and inventive as the name suggests. The work explores themes of violence and love, pretensions and emotion, sex and war and is both sobering, and hysterically funny.\u003cbr\u003e               The author of major novels, essays and reviews, the lecturer whose dazzling take on T.S. Eliot’s \u003cem\u003eThe Waste Land\u003c\/em\u003e changed our reading of the poem, is - like Eliot himself - a prosodic genius and a musical aficionado. Here are extracts from Burgess’s translations of the librettos of C\u003cem\u003earmen, Oberon\u003c\/em\u003e and others; of verse dramas including \u003cem\u003eCyrano de Bergerac, Oedipus the King, Chatsky\u003c\/em\u003e; and his original musicals \u003cem\u003eTrotsky’s in New York!\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eMozart and the Wolf Gang\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eA Clockwork Orange: A Play with Music\u003c\/em\u003e among others. Here too are his wonderful translations of the Roman dialect poet Giuseppe Belli, extracts from his verse epic \u003cem\u003eMoses\u003c\/em\u003e, the complete poems of F. X. Enderby, occasional poems for Vladimir Nabokov and Ogden Nash. And we encounter the poems of young John Burgess Wilson, from the Manchester student journal \u003cem\u003eThe Serpent\u003c\/em\u003e. Add to this the autobiographical poem ‘The Sword’, his \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e verses about the Apollo II moon landing, a verse fragment from his abandoned novel \u003cem\u003eIt is the Miller’s Daughter\u003c\/em\u003e - his fans and new readers will be left with a sense of the scale, wit and accomplishment of one of the great creative originals of the twentieth century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40945757290593,"sku":"9781857546163","price":8.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_35901443_6e009a6a-c6a5-4c10-b93d-1c247049c3a2.jpg?v=1756932499","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781857546163-revolutionary-sonnets","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}