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Jeremy Halvard Prynne (June 24, 1936 — ) is a British poet closely associated with the British Poetry Revival.

Prynne's early influences include Charles Olson and Donald Davie. His first book, Force of Circumstance and Other Poems was published in 1962; Prynne has excluded it from his canon. His Poems (1982) collected all the work he wanted to keep in print, beginning with Kitchen Poems (1968). An expanded and updated version appeared in 1999, with another, further updated, published in 2005. Prynne was one of the key figures in the Cambridge group of Revival poets and was a major contributor to The English Intelligencer.

In addition to his poetry, Prynne has published a wide range of critical and academic prose. A transcription of a 1971 lecture on Olson's Maximus Poems at Simon Fraser University has had wide circulation.[1]. His longer works include a monograph on Saussure, Stars, Tigers and the Shape of Words <ref>J.H. Prynne, Stars, Tigers and the Shape of Words (London: Birkbeck College, 1993)</ref> and self-published book-length commentaries on poems by Wordsworth (Field Notes: 'The Solitary Reaper' and others) and Shakespeare, (They That Haue Powre to Hurt; A Specimen of a Commentary on Shake-speares Sonnets, 94). His essay on New Songs from a Jade Terrace, an anthology of early Chinese love poetry, was included in the 2nd edition of the book from Penguin 1982. He has written poetry in classical Chinese under the name Pu Ling-en.

Prynne is a Life Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. As of October 2005, he has retired from his posts teaching English Literature as a Lecturer for the University of Cambridge and as Director of Studies in Caius College; he retired as Librarian of the College at the end of September 2006.

Bibliography

Poetry

  • Force of Circumstance and Other Poems (1962)
  • Kitchen Poems (1968)
  • Day Light Songs (1968)
  • The White Stones (1969)
  • Fire Lizard (1970)
  • Brass (1971)
  • A Night Square (1971)
  • Into The Day (1972)
  • Wound Response (1974)
  • High Pink on Chrome (1975)
  • News of Warring Clans (1977)
  • Down Where Changed (1979)
  • Poems (1982)
  • The Oval Window (1983)
  • Bands Around the Throat (1987)
  • Word Order (1989)
  • Jie ban mi Shi Hu (1992)
  • Not-You (1993)
  • Her Weasels Wild Returning (1994)
  • For the Monogram (1997)
  • Red D Gypsum (1998)
  • Pearls That Were (1999)
  • Poems (2nd edition, 1999)
  • Triodes (2000)
  • Unanswering Rational Shore (2001)
  • Acrylic Tips (2002)
  • Biting the Air (2003)
  • Blue Slides At Rest (2004)
  • Poems (3rd edition, 2005)
  • To Pollen (2006)

Prose

  • Stars, Tigers and the Shape of Words (1993)
  • They That Haue Powre to Hurt; A Specimen of a Commentary on Shake-speares Sonnets, 94 (2001)
  • Field Notes: 'The Solitary Reaper' and others (2007)




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