Northman: John Hewitt (1907-87): An Irish writer, his world, and his times - Image 1

£93.00

This is the most expensive it has ever been. Walk away.

£93 today · previous high £93 · all-time low £88

Oxford University Press Northman: John Hewitt (1907-87): An Irish writer, his world, and his times

Name: Northman: John Hewitt (1907-87): An Irish writer, his world, and his times
Brand: Oxford University Press
Price: 93.0 GBP
Availability: InStock

1901 Onwards

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 55 days • 3 price levels

Days at Price

Current Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £93 (28 days, 50.9%)

Price range: £88 - £93

Price levels: 3 different prices over 55 days

Description

This, the first ever biography of John Hewitt, is based on archival material, both personal and literary. In many ways it is also a biography of his wife, Roberta (nee Black), whose manuscript journal is also in the public domain. To establish Hewitt's late arrival as a poet, the book opens with a chapter recounting his negotiations with a London publisher over a long period and the eventual appearance of No Rebel Word (1949). Successive chapters trace his education, courtship, literary apprenticeship, first employment as a junior gallery curator in Belfast, the political conflicts of the 1930s and then the War Years, his rejection for the post of director in Belfast's Civic Museum and Gallery, and his utopian commitment to regionalism. Appointment to the Herbert Gallery in Coventry in 1956 brought recognition and confidence. His leanings towards socialist realism came to accommodate abstract art, and he defended the sculptor Barbara Hepworth against the penny-pinching ratepayers. Throughout this two-part career, Hewitt maintained his output as poet, culminating in the Collected Poems (1968). His Irish political commitments never wavered, though he became cautious about forms of nationalism which proclaimed themselves left-wing. Roberta Hewitt's work for the Coventry Labour Party provided an outlet for her energies and her domestic frustrations. Throughout these forty years, the poetry is kept constantly in view, sometime by reference to individual pieces and their origins, and some by means of longer 'breaks for text' where more detailed criticism is practised. In 1972, the Hewitts returned to Belfast whenthe Troubles reached an ugly peak. Committed to anti-sectarianism, Hewitt withheld support from all parties, though he took an interest in trade union activity. Publishing (perhaps too much) poetry in his last decade-and-a-half, he died very much in harness.

Product Specifications

Brand: Oxford University Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0198739826
Category: Books > Subjects > Biography > Historical > 1901 Onwards
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 01 September 2015
Listed Since: 12 March 2015

Barcode

No barcode data available

This is the most expensive it has ever been. Walk away.

Oxford University Press Northman: John Hewitt (1907-87): An Irish writer, his world, and his times

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Geoffrey Hill's Later Work: Radiance of Apprehension

Haunted Heaney: Spectres and the Poetry (Routledge Studies in Irish Literature)

W. H. Auden's Poetry: Mythos, Theory, and Practice

Michael Allen: Close Readings: Essays on Irish Poetry

Geoffrey Hartman: Romanticism After the Holocaust

Provisional Avant-Gardes: Little Magazine Communities from Dada to Digital (Post*45)

Routledge Twentieth-Century Fiction by Irish Women Book

The Routledge Guide to Modern English Writing: Britain and Ireland

The Great War in Irish Poetry: W. B. Yeats to Michael Longley

Poetry by Women in Ireland: A Critical Anthology 1870-1970

Irish Poets and Modern Greece: Heaney, Mahon, Cavafy, Seferis

Rethinking Masculinities: Ideology, Identity and Change in the People’s War in Nepal and its Aftermath (Men and Masculinities in a Transnational World)

The Contested Identities of Ulster Protestants

Tissues

Geoffrey Hill: The Drama of Reason: 9 (Modern Poetry)

Elizabeth Bowen: The Enforced Return

Routledge: The Frontier of Writing - Seamus Heaney Prose Study

Irish Poetry and the Construction of Modern Identity: Ireland Between Fantasy and History

American and British Poetry: A Guide to the Criticism, 1979-1990

The Violence Within/The Violence Without: Wallace Stevens and the Emergence of a Revolutionary Poetics

Literary Coteries and the Irish Women Writers' Club (1933-1958): 87 (Liverpool English Texts and Studies)

Devices and Desires: Commentary on Briggflatts, Omeros and The Book of Demons

The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers Vol 5: Volume Five: Textual Evidence and Commentary: 05

Yeats and Modern Poetry

This is the most expensive it has ever been. Walk away.

Oxford University Press Northman: John Hewitt (1907-87): An Irish writer, his world, and his times

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Geoffrey Hill's Later Work: Radiance of Apprehension

Haunted Heaney: Spectres and the Poetry (Routledge Studies in Irish Literature)

W. H. Auden's Poetry: Mythos, Theory, and Practice

Michael Allen: Close Readings: Essays on Irish Poetry

Geoffrey Hartman: Romanticism After the Holocaust

Provisional Avant-Gardes: Little Magazine Communities from Dada to Digital (Post*45)

Routledge Twentieth-Century Fiction by Irish Women Book

The Routledge Guide to Modern English Writing: Britain and Ireland

The Great War in Irish Poetry: W. B. Yeats to Michael Longley

Poetry by Women in Ireland: A Critical Anthology 1870-1970

Irish Poets and Modern Greece: Heaney, Mahon, Cavafy, Seferis

Rethinking Masculinities: Ideology, Identity and Change in the People’s War in Nepal and its Aftermath (Men and Masculinities in a Transnational World)

The Contested Identities of Ulster Protestants

Tissues

Geoffrey Hill: The Drama of Reason: 9 (Modern Poetry)

Elizabeth Bowen: The Enforced Return

Routledge: The Frontier of Writing - Seamus Heaney Prose Study

Irish Poetry and the Construction of Modern Identity: Ireland Between Fantasy and History

American and British Poetry: A Guide to the Criticism, 1979-1990

The Violence Within/The Violence Without: Wallace Stevens and the Emergence of a Revolutionary Poetics

Literary Coteries and the Irish Women Writers' Club (1933-1958): 87 (Liverpool English Texts and Studies)

Devices and Desires: Commentary on Briggflatts, Omeros and The Book of Demons

The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers Vol 5: Volume Five: Textual Evidence and Commentary: 05

Yeats and Modern Poetry