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Authors
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Thom
Gunn [828 GUN]
It is
easiest to use the Collected Poems, 1993. This brings together
almost all that is to be found in the separate volumes (most
important volumes asterisked):
Fighting
Terms, 1954, revised 1958 and subsequently; *The Sense of
Movement, 1957; *My Sad Captains, 1961; Positives, with photographs
by Ander Gunn (not reprinted or in Collected Poems); *Touch,
1967; *Moly, 1971; Jack Straw's Castle, 1976; The Passages
of Joy, 1982; *The Man with Night Sweats, 1992.
Gunn edited
Selected Poems of Fulke Greville, 1968, and Jonson, 1974.
This interest in Elizabethan and Jacobean verse is not accidental.
The introductions to these volumes are included in The Occasions
of Poetry: Essays in Criticism and Autobiography, edited by
Clive Wilmer, 1982 [809.1 GUN]. The criticism gives important
pointers to the shaping forces in Gunn's poetry; the later
volume is Shelf Life: Essays, Memoirs and an Interview, 1993
[828 GUN], where the essays on his teacher Yvor Winters and
the gay poet Robert Duncan are particularly worth attention.
Classmarks
for Royal Holloway library are given in square brackets. To
check our holdings of these books, and to reserve items on
short loan, log
into ALEPH here.
There
is no book on Gunn, but see:
- Clive
Wilmer, 'Definition and Flow: A Personal Reading of Thom
Gunn', P.N.Review, 7, 1978 [P].
- Martin
Dodsworth, 'Thom Gunn: Positives and Negatives', The Review,
18, April 1968 [P]. On Positives.
- -,
'Thom Gunn: Poetry as Action and Submission', The Survival
of Poetry, 1970 [828.1 DOD].
- P.N.Review,
16.2, 1989. A special number for Gunn's sixtieth birthday.
Some interesting short pieces.
- Gregory
Woods, 'Thom Gunn', Articulate Flesh: Male Homoeroticism
in Modern Poetry, 1987 [828.1 WOO] [P].
- Bruce
Woodcock, '"But oh not loose": Form and Sexuality in Thom
Gunn's Poetics', Critical Quarterly, 35.1, Spring 1993,
60-72
- Paul
Giles, 'Landscapes of Repetition: The self-parodic nature
of Thom Gunn's later poetry', Critical Quarterly, 29.2,
Summer 1987, 85-99.
- Alan
Sinfield, 'Thom Gunn at Sixty', Gay Times, August 1989.
An interview, not as revealing as you might expect. Photocopy
in library.
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