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"John Burnside’s The Music of Time: Poetry in the Twentieth Century . . . [is] a good book, combining personal reminiscence and intensive reflection on works by [various] poets . . . Burnside argues that 20th-century poetry matters because it continually interacts with contemporary social conditions and political crises, with what he calls—borrowing the phrase from Osip Mandelstam—'the noise of time'."---Michael Dirda, Washington Post
"Burnside has an encyclopedic reach, and his sensitive readings of poets and individual poems make [The Music of Time] a refreshing study. . . . Highly recommended." * Choice *

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      Publisher: Princeton University Press
      Publication Date: 21/01/2020
      ISBN13: 9780691201559, 978-0691201559
      ISBN10: 0691201552

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      Book Synopsis


      Trade Review
      "John Burnside’s The Music of Time: Poetry in the Twentieth Century . . . [is] a good book, combining personal reminiscence and intensive reflection on works by [various] poets . . . Burnside argues that 20th-century poetry matters because it continually interacts with contemporary social conditions and political crises, with what he calls—borrowing the phrase from Osip Mandelstam—'the noise of time'."---Michael Dirda, Washington Post
      "Burnside has an encyclopedic reach, and his sensitive readings of poets and individual poems make [The Music of Time] a refreshing study. . . . Highly recommended." * Choice *

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