Jubilation (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Charles Tomlinson
- First Published: 1995
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Short fiction, Poetry
- Subjects: Nature, Literature, Poetry or poets, Space and time, Romanticism, Retirement, Naturalism, Mind and body
The title poem of this new collection, “Jubilación,” parades the Spanish word for “retirement.” The pun equates retirement with jubilation, and this happy marriage provides the central theme for the entire collection—the fourth in only eight years since the publication of the expanded edition of Charles Tomlinson’s Collected Poems in 1987. Tomlinson continues to luxuriate in the subtleties of natural phenomena such as daybreak and twilight in a variety of landscapes and weather, but his most impressive achievement continues to be his metrical and imagistic...
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