Tony Harrison Summary

Tony Harrison's is one of the most original voices in postwar English poetry. Born into the nonliterary world of the British working class, he has through his work as a poet and translator developed a... Read more

[In the following essay, Young asserts Harrison's skill as a poetic dramatist, but notes that, “His now established trade as writer for the theatre—including music-theatre—... Read more

[In the following excerpt, Wood argues that several contemporary British translations of Greek classics, including Harrison's Oresteia, “are claims, made through language, that Britain h... Read more

[In the following essay, Rutter examines the role of gender in Harrison's Oresteia.] The Headmistress considered the splendidly wrapped Christmas present from the boy she'd harangued ... Read more

[In the following essay, Huk discusses Harrison's adaptations of classical drama and traces how the poet brings a new life and a contemporary edge to the Greek classics.] To understand this,... Read more

[In the following review, the critic praises Harrison as “one of today's most unusual writing talents.”] For the first time in almost a decade, an English poet stands a good ch... Read more

[In the following essay, Haberkamm provides an in-depth analysis of Harrison's V. and describes it as “a contemporary elegy, a public poem, which opens up to its social context without d... Read more

[In the following review, Latanté complains that Harrison's work is not easily found in American bookstores, but that his collections Permanently Bard and The Shadow of Hiroshima and Oth... Read more

[In the following essay, Forbes argues that Harrison has more in common with eighteenth-century poetic models than his twentieth-century contemporaries.] There has been surprisingly little discussi... Read more

[In the following essay, Rutter analyzes Harrison's The Labourers of Herakles and asserts that “To this female spectator in the audience Harrison's theatrical practice seems progr... Read more