Collected Poems

1944-1979

Fiction & Literature, Poetry, British & Irish
Cover of the book Collected Poems by Kingsley Amis, New York Review Books
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Author: Kingsley Amis ISBN: 9781590178676
Publisher: New York Review Books Publication: June 21, 2016
Imprint: NYRB Poets Language: English
Author: Kingsley Amis
ISBN: 9781590178676
Publisher: New York Review Books
Publication: June 21, 2016
Imprint: NYRB Poets
Language: English

Kingsley Amis’s poetry tackles all the grimly humorous subjects he tackled in his novels—lust, lost love, booze, money and the lack of it, old age, death—and does so with immense formal poise. A master of both traditional and unconventional meters with a perfect ear for parody, Amis wrote satires, epigrams, and rueful and scornful songs that are remarkable not only for their virtuosity and humor but for their scabrous realism. It all adds up to a small, entirely individual, and memorably bracing body of work. As Amis writes: “Beauty, they tell me, is a dangerous thing, / Whose touch will burn, but I’m asbestos, see?”

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Kingsley Amis’s poetry tackles all the grimly humorous subjects he tackled in his novels—lust, lost love, booze, money and the lack of it, old age, death—and does so with immense formal poise. A master of both traditional and unconventional meters with a perfect ear for parody, Amis wrote satires, epigrams, and rueful and scornful songs that are remarkable not only for their virtuosity and humor but for their scabrous realism. It all adds up to a small, entirely individual, and memorably bracing body of work. As Amis writes: “Beauty, they tell me, is a dangerous thing, / Whose touch will burn, but I’m asbestos, see?”

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