Michael Hamburger: Poet

Michael Hamburger was British translator, poet, critic, memoirist and academic. Explore interesting quotes on poet.
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“He was out of tune with what a younger generation of poets were writing, and railed against the shallowness and commercialisation of the modern world, from his fastness: a farmhouse surrounded by orchards in Middleton, Suffolk.”

Michael Hamburger

Obituary in The Guardian http://books.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,,2099883,00.html
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“I suppose that I am a very serious poet – except for satirical verse, which I have also been compelled to write, though much of it may be inferior to my more serious poems – perhaps because I am not playful enough by nature, and even my satirical or polemical verse is not entertaining.”

Michael Hamburger

Interview with Lidia Vianu http://lidiavianu.scriptmania.com/Michael%20Hamburger.htm

Nature

“I was invited to Romania at least once, but was warned that I should not be free to travel where I pleased in the country, but should be more or less confined to the Writers' Union. Because I ceased long ago to be an urban poet and feel claustrophobic in literary conferences, I could not accept such an invitation.”

Michael Hamburger

Interview with Lidia Vianu http://lidiavianu.scriptmania.com/Michael%20Hamburger.htm

Travel , Feeling , Country

“It is impossible for a poet to characterize his own work. From other people I gather that I am a gloomy poet, if not a tragic one.”

Michael Hamburger

Interview with Lidia Vianu http://lidiavianu.scriptmania.com/Michael%20Hamburger.htm

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