[New-Poetry] Fenton Reviewed in the Times

[TheOldMole]

The English poet James Fenton has survived the specter of his own immense promise. Every possible temptation, disguised as encouragement, has been thrown in his path: the burdensome epithet ("heir to Auden" or "major British poet of his generation"), the sexy hype of a new coterie (the so-called "Martian" school), and even a turn on the throne, as the Oxford professor of poetry. In spite of the hoo-ha, Fenton remains an extraordinary poet with something original to disclose. The publication of his "Selected Poems" gives American readers an excuse to lay encomiums aside and discover Fenton for themselves.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/11/books/review/Metcalf.t.html?ref=books


Tad Richards
www.opus40.org
http://opusforty.blogspot.com/
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