The lamentation of the dead has been a preoccupation in Peter Levi's recent poetry, as well as the subject of his inaugural lecture as Oxford Professor of Poetry in 1984. Few poets of our time have found ways in which to compose such sustained meditations on matters of life and death as Peter Levi has done in these personal yet formal poems. "Shakespeare's Birthday" collects three laments - in memory of Charles Haldeman, Caryl Brahms and Alasdair Clayre - written since those included in "The Echoing Green" (1983), to which this forms a companion volume.
- ISBN10 0856461423
- ISBN13 9780856461422
- Publish Date 25 April 1985
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Carcanet Press Ltd
- Imprint Anvil Press Poetry
- Format Paperback
- Pages 40
- Language English