Table of Contents

Prologue; Chapter One: The Vision Poems; Chapter Two: Hodoiporika I: Poems of Travel and Discovery; Chapter Three: Hodoiporika II: The New Divan; Chapter Four: Edwin Morgan and the Grotesque; Chapter Five: Some Morgan Versions of Elegy; Chapter Six: The Monologic Poems; Epilogue; Index

About the Author

Rodney Stenning Edgecombe is Associate Professor of English at the University of Cape Town. He studied at Trinity College, University of Cambridge, where he received his PhD in 1981. He has won numerous prestigious prizes including the Royal Society of St. George Prize for English at Rhodes University and the Members’ English Prize at Cambridge in 1978/79. He is author of numerous books and articles on the work of George Herbert, George Crabbe, Patrick White, Muriel Spark, Thomas Gray, Richard Wilbur, Leigh Hunt and Howard Nemerov.