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Jeremy Halvard Prynne is a British

British poetry

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poet

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closely associated with the British Poetry Revival

British Poetry Revival

The British Poetry Revival is the general name given to a loose poetry movement in Britain that took place in the 1960s and 1970s. The revival was a modernist-inspired reaction to the Movement's more conservative approach to British poetry.-Beginnings:...

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Prynne's early influences include Charles Olson

Charles Olson

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and Donald Davie

Donald Davie

Donald Alfred Davie was an English Movement poet, and literary critic. His poems in general are philosophical and abstract, but often evoke various landscapes.-Biography:...

. His first book, Force of Circumstance and Other Poems was published in 1962

1962 in poetry

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; Prynne has excluded it from his canon. His Poems (1982) collected all the work he wanted to keep in print up to the time of publication, beginning with Kitchen Poems (1968). An expanded and updated version appeared in 1999, with another, further updated, published in 2005.
Prynne was one of the key figures in the Cambridge group of Revival poets and was a major contributor to The English Intelligencer
The English Intelligencer
The English Intelligencer was a literary magazine/newsletter founded and edited by the poets Andrew Crozier and Peter Riley. It played a key role in the emergence of many of the poets associated with the British Poetry Revival...

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In addition to his poetry, Prynne has published some critical and academic prose. A transcription of a 1971 lecture on Olson's Maximus Poems at Simon Fraser University has had wide circulation.http://charlesolson.ca/files/Prynnelecture1.htm. His longer works include a monograph on Saussure, Stars, Tigers and the Shape of Words and self-published book-length commentaries on poems by Wordsworth (Field Notes: 'The Solitary Reaper' and others) and Shakespeare (They That Haue Powre to Hurt; A Specimen of a Commentary on Shake-speares Sonnets, 94). His essay on New Songs from a Jade Terrace
New Songs from the Jade Terrace
New Songs from the Jade Terrace is a collection of Chinese poetry dating to the time of the Six Dynasties. Its poems have frequently been translated and have otherwise been of great artistic influence around the world. Although there is uncertainty about the authorship of the individual poems, the...

, an anthology of early Chinese

Chinese poetry

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love poetry, was included in the second edition of the book from Penguin 1982. He has written poetry in classical Chinese under the name Pu Ling-en.

Prynne is a Life Fellow

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of Gonville and Caius College

Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge

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, Cambridge

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. As of October 2005, he has retired from his posts teaching English Literature

English literature

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as a Lecturer

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and University Reader

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in English Poetry for the University of Cambridge

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and as Director of Studies in English for Gonville and Caius College; he retired as Librarian of the College at the end of September 2006.

Poetry

Force of Circumstance and Other Poems (1962)
Kitchen Poems (1968)
Day Light Songs (1968)
The White Stones (1969)
Fire Lizard (1970)
Brass (1971)
A Night Square (1971)
Into The Day (1972)
Wound Response (1974)
High Pink on Chrome (1975)
News of Warring Clans (1977)
Down Where Changed (1979)
Poems (1982)
The Oval Window (1983)
Bands Around the Throat (1987)
Word Order (1989)
Jie ban mi Shi Hu (1992)
Not-You (1993)
Her Weasels Wild Returning (1994)
For the Monogram (1997)
Red D Gypsum (1998)
Pearls That Were (1999)
Poems (2nd edition, 1999)
Triodes (2000)
Unanswering Rational Shore (2001)
Acrylic Tips (2002)
Biting the Air (2003)
Blue Slides At Rest (2004)
Poems (3rd edition, 2005)
To Pollen (2006)
STREAK〜〜〜WILLING〜〜〜ENTOURAGE ARTESIAN (2009)
SUB SONGS (2010)
Kazoo Dreamboats; or, On What There Is (2011)

Prose

Stars, Tigers and the Shape of Words (1993)
They That Haue Powre to Hurt; A Specimen of a Commentary on Shake-speares Sonnets, 94 (2001)
Field Notes: 'The Solitary Reaper' and others (2007)

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