this week, on the poet's seventieth birthday. It is in the sixteen-line poems of The School of Eloquence, a sequence which assembled itself gradually over a number of years, that Harrison sets out his particular history as a child who transcends (and is subsequently separated from) a working-class background by the force of a learned articulacy."Continuous", one of the ninety or so pieces in the finished series, was first published in the TLS in 1980.Continuous
from The Times Literary Supplement: Poem of the Week
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