Treasuries Poetry Anthologies and the Making of British Culture
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Clare Bucknell is a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. She is an expert on the history of poetry and has written on literature and visual culture for the London Review of Books, the New York Review of Books, the New Yorker, Harper's and Apollo. She lives in London.Anthologies are the sleepers of the bookshelf, loaded with the hidden ideals and prejudices of their compilers. Clare Bucknell reads expertly between their lines to reveal a remarkable alternative history of literature.
- Rosemary Hill,
The delight of this book is its expert toggling of scale. Bucknell dissects large issues - politics, class, taste, education - via small vignettes: Palgrave collecting his poems with scissors, war poems falling like bombs, poetry on prescription. Her panoramic history throws up unexpected parallels - the Exclusion Crisis and the Spanish Civil War, Keats and working men’s eduction, ballads and pop. Treasuries is smart and learned but unpatronising: it sparkles with appreciation for the anthologist and their always-partial act of selection.
- Emma Smith, author of Portable Magic
Impressive in its coverage of social history, teeming with anecdotes, <i>The Treasuries</i> arrives just as Britain is once more rearranging its literary heritage and 'retelling favourite stories about itself at a moment of national crisis'.
- Peter Conrad,
Clare Bucknell is a compelling storyteller as well as a deep and cheerful scholar. A riveting read, The Treasuries changes how a reader approaches the designing and sometimes devious anthologists and the books they sell us.
- Michael Schmidt,
This book is a wonderful celebration and examination of anthologies as the cornerstone of our literary culture.
- Ian McMillan,