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Goodbye to the Art of Poetry

Peter Levi

Imprint: Anvil Press Poetry
Publisher: Carcanet Press
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  • Peter Levi (1931–2000) was elected Professor of Poetry at Oxford University in 1984. Until 1977 he was a Jesuit priest. He was a classicist whose writing includes three uncategorizable books – on modern Greece, Afghanistan, and the English landscape – as well as translations, critical and scholarly works, a thriller and ... read more
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