{"product_id":"the-oval-window-a-new-annotated-edition-paperback","title":"The Oval Window: A New Annotated Edition - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJ. H. Prynne\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume is a new annotated edition of J.H. Prynne's 1983 poem \u003cem\u003eThe Oval Window\u003c\/em\u003e, making use of photographs taken by the poet at the time and place of composition, together with a substantial portfolio supplied by him of source and reference material. This source material includes political and economic news published during the period in early autumn 1983 when the poem was written, together with extracts from literature, Eastern and Western philosophy, optics, anatomy, computer programming language, and a considerable quantity of ancient Chinese poetry. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe edition has two commentary essays: the first primarily concerned with approaches to reading, including the use of search engines, and with the relations between different elements in the work, and the second with the topography and the critical antecedents of the poem. For ease of reading, a clean reading text is included as well as the annotated text.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe expanded third edition of Prynne's \u003cem\u003ePoems\u003c\/em\u003e (2015) was published by Bloodaxe in 2015 and was followed by the supplementary Poems \u003cem\u003e2016-2024\u003c\/em\u003e in 2024.\u003c\/p\u003eThis volume is a new annotated edition of J.H. Prynne's 1983 poem The Oval Window, making use of photographs taken by the poet at the time and place of composition, together with a substantial portfolio supplied by him of source and reference material. This source material includes political and economic news published during the period in early autumn 1983 when the poem was written, together with extracts from literature, Eastern and Western philosophy, optics, anatomy, computer programming language, and a considerable quantity of ancient Chinese poetry. The edition has two commentary essays: the first primarily concerned with approaches to reading, including the use of search engines, and with the relations between different elements in the work, and the second with the topography and the critical antecedents of the poem. For ease of reading, a clean reading text is included as well as the annotated text. The expanded third edition of Prynne's Poems (2015) was published by Bloodaxe in 2015.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJ.H. Prynne (1936-2026) was Britain's leading late Modernist poet. His \u003cem\u003ePoems\u003c\/em\u003e (1982) collected all the work he wanted to keep in print up to that point, beginning with \u003cem\u003eKitchen Poems\u003c\/em\u003e (1968). An expanded and updated version was published by Bloodaxe Books with Fremantle Arts Centre Press in 1999 as \u003cem\u003ePoems\u003c\/em\u003e. Four further collections were added to the second edition of \u003cem\u003ePoems\u003c\/em\u003e in 2005, followed by a further seven along with a group of uncollected poems to the third edition of \u003cem\u003ePoems\u003c\/em\u003e (2015).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe decade following \u003cem\u003ePoems\u003c\/em\u003e (2015) was the most productive period of Prynne's life, with over thirty limited editions published between 2017 and 2023. To have added these to a fourth edition of \u003cem\u003ePoems\u003c\/em\u003e would have doubled the size of that volume. His \u003cem\u003ePoems 2016-2024\u003c\/em\u003e was therefore a separate, supplementary edition of his later work, including, except for minor corrections, the unchanged contents of 34 texts, from \u003cem\u003eEach to Each\u003c\/em\u003e (2017), written in 2016, to \u003cem\u003eHadn't Yet Bitten\u003c\/em\u003e (2023), as well as the corrected 2023 text of \u003cem\u003eAt Raucous Purposeful\u003c\/em\u003e (2022). His later work was published by Face Press in four further pamphlets: \u003cem\u003eFrom Obsidian Cobalt\u003c\/em\u003e (2024), \u003cem\u003eDoric Plumage\u003c\/em\u003e (2025), \u003cem\u003eWhich Scarf Match\u003c\/em\u003e (2026) and \u003cem\u003eSingle Tangle Mine\u003c\/em\u003e (2026).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrynne published a wide range of critical and academic prose, including works on Saussure, Wordsworth, Shakespeare. His essay on \u003cem\u003eNew Songs from a Jade Terrace\u003c\/em\u003e, an anthology of early Chinese love poetry, was included in the second edition of the book from Penguin in 1982. He also wrote poetry in classical Chinese under the name Pu Ling-en. His 1969 collection \u003cem\u003eThe White Stones\u003c\/em\u003e - central to his poetics - was reissued in 2016 by New York Review Books with an introduction by Peter Gizzi. An annotated, illustrated edition of his 1983 collection \u003cem\u003eThe Oval Window\u003c\/em\u003e, edited by N.H. Reeve and Richard Kerridge, was published by Bloodaxe in 2018.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrynne's most productive decade also saw the publication of three prose works, \u003cem\u003eGraft and Corruption: Shakespeare's Sonnet 15\u003c\/em\u003e (2015\/2016), \u003cem\u003eApophthegms\u003c\/em\u003e (2017) and \u003cem\u003eWhitman and Truth\u003c\/em\u003e (2022), along with editions of Prynne's correspondence with Charles Olson (2017) and Douglas Oliver (2022). His two-volume \u003cem\u003eCollected Prose\u003c\/em\u003e is forthcoming from Oxford University Press (New York). A seminal interview with Jeff Doven and Joshua Kotin, 'J.H. Prynne: The Arts of Poetry No.101', was published in \u003cem\u003eParis Review\u003c\/em\u003e, 218 (Fall 2016).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJeremy Halvard Prynne grew up in Kent and studied at St Dunstan's College in Catford and Jesus College, Cambridge. He was a Life Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. In 2005 he retired from teaching English Literature as a Lecturer and from his posts as University Reader in English Poetry for the University of Cambridge and Director of Studies in English for Gonville and Caius College; he retired as Librarian of the College in 2006.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 160\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 8.6 x 8.6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 29, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50373360812269,"sku":"9781780371269","price":21.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0020\/8918\/9441\/files\/zelMLV7cu39781780371269.webp?v=1785520900","url":"https:\/\/www.webster.direct\/en-au\/products\/the-oval-window-a-new-annotated-edition-paperback","provider":"Webster.Direct","version":"1.0","type":"link"}