Gunn, Thom

Overview

Works:	617 works in 1,337 publications in 4 languages and 23,747 library holdings
Genres:	Poetry Biography Criticism, interpretation, etc Love poetry Interviews Autobiographies Autographs Bibliography
Roles:	Author, Editor, Performer, Contributor, Dedicatee, Honoree, Narrator, Interviewee, Other, Lyricist, Author of introduction
Classifications:	PR6013.U65, 821.914

Publication Timeline

Most widely held works about Thom Gunn

At the barriers : on the poetry of Thom Gunn by Joshua Weiner( )
Breakfast with Thom Gunn by Randall Mann( )
The occasions of poetry : essays in criticism and autobiography by Thom Gunn( Book )
Shelf life : essays, memoirs, and an interview by Thom Gunn( Book )
Three Contemporary poets : Thom Gunn, Ted Hughes & R.S. Thomas : a casebook by A. E Dyson( Book )

Gunn & Hughes : Thom Gunn and Ted Hughes by Alan Bold( Book )
Thom Gunn and Ted Hughes by Alan Bold( Book )
The poetry of Thom Gunn : a critical study by Stefania Michelucci( Book )
The Alvarez generation : Thom Gunn, Geoffrey Hill, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath and Peter Porter by William Wootten( )
The touch of sympathy, Philip Larkin und Thom Gunn : zwei Beiträge zur englischen Gegenwartsdichtung by Ingrid Rückert( Book )
Thomas Gunn vs. the Union Railroad Co., no. 2828 by Thom Gunn( )
A geography by Thom Gunn( Book )
Thom Gunn, a bibliography by Jack W. C Hagstrom( Book )
Gunn & Hughes : Thom Gunn and Ted Hughes by Alan Bold( Book )
La poesia di Thom Gunn by Lidia De Michelis( Book )
Poetry criticism, excerpts from criticism of the works of the most significant and widely studied poets of world literature( Book )
Thom Gunn, a bibliography. 1979-2012 by Jack W. C Hagstrom( Book )
Boss Cupid by Thom Gunn( )
Brodie's notes on Thom Gunn & Ted Hughes, Selected poems by Auriol Smith( Book )
The writer and commitment by John Mander( Book )

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Most widely held works by Thom Gunn

Collected poems by Thom Gunn( Book )

36 editions published between 1993 and 2011 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,128 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The writer specializes in inventing the inner lives of historical and mythological figures, of which the poem "Jesus and his Mother" is an example: "Are you the boy I bore alone, / No doctor near to cut the cord? / I cannot reach to call you Lord, / Answer me as my only son."

Selected poems, 1950-1975 by Thom Gunn( Book )

34 editions published between 1979 and 1999 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,071 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Poezië van homoseksuele Engelsman die in de VS leeft

My sad captains, and other poems by Thom Gunn( Book )

32 editions published between 1961 and 2004 in English and Undetermined and held by 853 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Selected poems by Thom Gunn( Book )

42 editions published between 1962 and 2017 in English and Undetermined and held by 847 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"I shall not soon forget / The greyish-yellow skin / To which the face had set: / Lids tight: nothing of his, / No tremor from within, Played on the surfaces. / He still found breath, and yet / It was an obscure knack." (from "Still Life")

The man with night sweats by Thom Gunn( Book )

24 editions published between 1992 and 2010 in English and held by 719 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Boss Cupid by Thom Gunn( Book )

18 editions published between 2000 and 2013 in English and Undetermined and held by 717 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A collection of poems by Thom Gunn that describe how people are ruled by their desires

Selected poems of Fulke Greville by Fulke Greville( Book )

16 editions published between 1968 and 2009 in English and held by 715 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Touch by Thom Gunn( Book )

26 editions published between 1957 and 1974 in English and Undetermined and held by 694 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Poems

The passages of joy by Thom Gunn( Book )

17 editions published between 1982 and 2010 in English and held by 649 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The sense of movement by Thom Gunn( Book )

48 editions published between 1942 and 2010 in English and held by 635 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Derde poeziëbundel met thema lichamelijke intimiteit

Les séquestrés d'Altona : pièce en cinq actes by Jean-Paul Sartre( Book )

1 edition published in 1960 in French and held by 557 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

La guerre, on ne la fait pas : c'est elle qui nous fait. Tant qu'on se battait, je rigolais bien : j'étais un civil en uniforme. Une nuit, je suis devenu soldat pour toujours

Fighting terms by Thom Gunn( Book )

47 editions published between 1954 and 1970 in English and Undetermined and held by 556 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Positives by Thom Gunn( Book )

14 editions published between 1966 and 1973 in English and held by 518 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Moly ; and, My sad captains by Thom Gunn( Book )

5 editions published between 1973 and 1977 in English and held by 498 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Selected poems by Yvor Winters( Book )

4 editions published in 2003 in English and held by 482 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

As critic and teacher, Yvor Winters was one of the most controversial and influential figures of his time. He criticized the likes of Eliot and Henry James, was called by the chair of his English department "a disgrace," and taught such major poets as Robert Pinsky and Philip Levine. As a poet, he created a moving body of work featuring natural and personal subjects and dramatic formal experiments. This volume presents the largest collection of his work

Jack Straw's castle and other poems by Thom Gunn( Book )

6 editions published in 1976 in English and held by 461 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Some of the poems in this collection are set in England, where Gunn was brought up; some in the United States, especially northern California, where he has lived for twenty-two years

Moly by Thom Gunn( Book )

15 editions published between 1971 and 2004 in English and Undetermined and held by 427 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Jack Straw's castle by Thom Gunn( Book )

24 editions published between 1974 and 1997 in English and Undetermined and held by 418 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

To the air by Thom Gunn( Book )

6 editions published in 1974 in English and held by 415 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

English romantic poetry : an anthology by Harold Bloom( Book )

1 edition published in 1961 in English and held by 332 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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