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Of Love, Time and Places

Selected Poems

Charles Madge

Imprint: Anvil Press Poetry
Publisher: Carcanet Press
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Hardback (216 pages)
(Pub. Apr 1994)
9780856462313
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  • This major retrospective selection of Charles Madge’s poetry appeared just over fifty years after the publication of his last Faber collection, The Father Found (1941). He continued to write during the forties, and, more intermittently, after becoming Professor of Social Science at Birmingham University in 1950. Of Love, Time and Places is a comprehensive selection, bringing back into print his published poems, and giving us his later work for the first time.

    Please note that remaining copies of this hardback edition are unjacketed.

    Charles Madge was born in Johannesburg in 1912, and was educated at Cambridge. He published his first collection of poetry The Disappearing Castle in 1937, the year Mass-Observation became a fulltime occupation for him, at first with Humphrey Jennings, then with Tom Harrisson. During the war he did social and economic ... read more
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