John Skelton (1464?-1529) is the first great modern English poet. Immensely proud of his poetic calling, he celebrates in his poems the language itself, in all its richness. He wrote in a vigorous vernacular, taking literary English out of the mediev...

This booklet contains early poems, mostly written in 1968, by the brilliant editor of Carcanet Press and "PN Review". Born in Mexico in 1947, he studied at Harvard and at Wadham College, Oxford. He has published several critical books and collections...