Pioneers
Christopher Reid
- Some Americans: A Personal Record by Charles Tomlinson
California, 134 pp, £6.50, June 1981, ISBN 0 520 04037 6
‘It is strange,’ Charles Tomlinson writes, ‘to have met the innovators of one’s time only when age had overtaken them.’ The innovators to whom he refers are those American poets – Ezra Pound, Marianne Moore, William Carlos Williams and others – whose work and moral example have been of importance to his own growth as a writer.
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Vol. 3 No. 16 · 3 September 1981 » Christopher Reid » Pioneers
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