A Chiltern Hundred (Paperback)


A hundred was 'a subdivision of a county or shire, having its own court' (OED); the Chiltern Hundreds were the three subdivisions of South Bucks - from west to east, Desborough, Burnham and Stoke. This last, named after Stoke Poges, is today shared with Berkshire and dominated by the urban sprawl of Slough. Here for many years Keith Bosley has lived and enjoyed its contrasts - manor and supermarket, Norman church and cooling-tower, the landscape of the young Milton, of Gray and Herschel. "A Chiltern Hundred" celebrates it with a hundred poems of many kinds - historical, topographical, satirical, lyrical. The book is also a treasury of verse forms: there are Classical odes, sestina and terza rima, ballade and villanelle, englyn and cywydd, renga and pantun, punctuated by a prize-winning sequence of sonnets that explore more personal themes.

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A hundred was 'a subdivision of a county or shire, having its own court' (OED); the Chiltern Hundreds were the three subdivisions of South Bucks - from west to east, Desborough, Burnham and Stoke. This last, named after Stoke Poges, is today shared with Berkshire and dominated by the urban sprawl of Slough. Here for many years Keith Bosley has lived and enjoyed its contrasts - manor and supermarket, Norman church and cooling-tower, the landscape of the young Milton, of Gray and Herschel. "A Chiltern Hundred" celebrates it with a hundred poems of many kinds - historical, topographical, satirical, lyrical. The book is also a treasury of verse forms: there are Classical odes, sestina and terza rima, ballade and villanelle, englyn and cywydd, renga and pantun, punctuated by a prize-winning sequence of sonnets that explore more personal themes.

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Imprint

Anvil Press Poetry

Country of origin

United Kingdom

Release date

May 1987

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Dimensions

220 x 140 x 9mm (L x W x T)

Format

Paperback

Pages

144

ISBN-13

978-0-85646-176-7

Barcode

9780856461767

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LSN

0-85646-176-8



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