by Kingsley Amis · Penguin Books Ltd · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140120745
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«Collected Poems 1944-1979» is the poetry collection by Kingsley Amis, published by Penguin Books in paperback (160 pages, in English).
Kingsley Amis's poetry addresses with irony and formal mastery the same subjects that run through his novels: desire, heartbreak, drink, money, old age and death. The author masters traditional and unconventional metres, and cultivates satire, epigram and song with sharp humour and a realistic eye.
The Penguin Books Ltd edition was published in November 1988 in London.
For readers who want to discover the lyrical side of Kingsley Amis, better known for his novels.
Sir Kingsley William Amis was an English novelist, poet, critic and teacher. He wrote more than 20 novels, six volumes of poetry, a memoir, short stories, radio and television scripts, and works of social and literary criticism. He is best known for satirical comedies such as Lucky Jim (1954), One Fat Englishman (1963), Ending Up (1974), Jake's Thing (1978) and The Old Devils (1986). His biographer Zachary Leader called Amis "the finest English comic novelist of the second half of the twentieth century." In 2008, The Times ranked him ninth on a list of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945. He was the father of the novelist Martin Amis. Amis was knighted in 1990.
