Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems. (Comment).
| Publisher | Modern Poetry Association |
| Publication | Poetry |
| Subject | Literature/writing |
| Format | Magazine/Journal |
| ISSN | 0032-2032 |
| Issues per Year | 12 |
| Volume | 180 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Published | 2002-04-01 |
| Role | Type | Name |
| Reviewee | n/a | Billy Collins |
| Author | n/a | Dennis O'Driscoll |
by Billy Collins. Random House. $21.95.
"The quickest way to start a punch-up between two British literary critics is to ask them what they think of the poems of Sir John Betjeman," Philip Larkin remarked in his introduction to the American edition of Betjeman's Collected Poems. So divided--indeed polarized--are American reviewers of Billy Collins's work that one can imagine his poetry provoking a similar critical brawl in some university English Department (now no doubt being renamed the Department of English, Literary Theory, and Media Studies) where it has proved...
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