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"A generous helping of [James's] very best, guaranteed to lift the spirit and raise the eyebrow."—Billy Collins__Opal Sunset__ marks the exuberant introduction of Clive James's poetry to an American audience. Praised after the publication of __Cultural Amnesia__ as one of the finest prose stylists of his generation, Clive James is now, with the publication of this collection, being granted recognition as the poet he has always been. For much of his long career it was hard to realize that James's gift for poetry underlay his achievements in other fields. First as a television critic on Fleet Street, and later as a television personality in his own right, he achieved such fame for writing the way he spoke that his poetry was regarded as an idiosyncratic sideline, as if no celebrity could write worthy verse. A conundrum presented itself: how could a serious poet also be a television star? But for James, a duty to the discipline of verse was always...

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Author

James, Clive

Publisher

W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9780393067071

Category

work of literary fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Poetry, Humanities

Rating

3.89 / 5 (26 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13