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Who Is Ozymandias?

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • ISBN: 9780099541691

  • Length: 256  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 16mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 186g

  • RRP: £9.99

Who Is Ozymandias?

  • And other Puzzles in Poetry

Part of the pleasure of poetry is unravelling the mysteries and difficulties it contains and solving the puzzles that lie within. Who, for instance, is Ozymandias? What is the Snark? Who is the Emperor of Ice-Cream? Or indeed, who is 'you' in a poem?

In this perceptive and playful new book, acclaimed poet John Fuller looks at some of our greatest poems and considers the number of individual puzzles at their heart, casting light on how we should approach these conundrums as readers. From riddling to double entendres, mysterious titles to red herrings, Fuller unpicks the puzzles in works that range from Browning to Bishop, Empson to Eliot, Shelley to Stevens, to help us reach the rewards and revelations that lie at the centre of some of our best-loved poems.

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • ISBN: 9780099541691

  • Length: 256  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 16mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 186g

  • RRP: £9.99

Reviews

  • "Fuller's book should encourage many to go off and puzzle out poems for themselves"

    Sunday Times

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About the Author

John Fuller

John Fuller, born in Ashford, Kent, is an acclaimed poet and novelist. His collection Stones and Fires (1996) was awarded the Forward Prize; Ghosts (2004) was shortlisted for the Whitbread Award for Poetry; The Space of Joy (2006) was shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Award, and The Grey Among the Green (1988), Song & Dance (2008) and Pebble & I (2010) were all Poetry Book Society Recommendations. His 1983 novel Flying to Nowhere, a historical fantasy, won the Whitbread First Novel Award and was nominated for the Booker Prize. He has also written collections of short stories and several books for children. He is an Emeritus Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford.

John Fuller

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