Outbreaks of Poets
Robert Crawford, 15 June 2023
The Treasuries: Poetry Anthologies and the Making of British Culture
by Clare Bucknell.
Head of Zeus, 344 pp., £27.99, February,978 1 80024 144 2 Show More
by Clare Bucknell.
Head of Zeus, 344 pp., £27.99, February,
“... for the young noble dead.Conscious that the term ‘anthology’ brings together the Greek for ‘flower’ and ‘word’, Bucknell is good on the way ‘the act of dying’ could be seen as something that ‘made England flower too’. She might have drawn our attention to the attempts of 20th-century publishers to fuse ... ”