Radice's skill as a narrative poet is shown here in three extended sequences or poems. People is a series of touching portraits, concerned with illusion and disillusion: a variety of men and women reflect on their lives. Aeneas is a Vergilian descent into the underworld of a mental hospital. By contrast, Songs of a Schoolmaster is a ferocious satire, with a serious underlying purpose: the exploration of how people try to reconcile their sense of the sinfulness of the world with their love for it.
- ISBN10 0856461539
- ISBN13 9780856461538
- Publish Date 12 December 1985
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 25 September 2009
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Carcanet Press Ltd
- Imprint Anvil Press Poetry
- Format Paperback
- Pages 72
- Language English