Tony Harrison
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- Tony Harrison(1937-Present Day)
- Personal Life
- Born in Leeds
- educated at leeds grammar school and the university of leeds
- he read classics and took a diploma in linguistics
- educated at leeds grammar school and the university of leeds
- some years he lived in gosforth, Newcastle upon tyne
- Born in Leeds
- material for poetry provided by memories of his working-class chbildhood
- his poems & translations show a powerful rhyme and expert adaptation of colloquial speach
- best know collections are 'The Loiners(1970) and The School Of Eloquences
- best known work is long poem V(1985)
- written during the miners strikes 1984-85
- describes a trip to see his parents grave in a Leeds cemetry
- proposals to screen a filmed version of V by channel 4 in october 1987 drew howls of outrage from tabloid press
- the broadcast went on
- proposals to screen a filmed version of V by channel 4 in october 1987 drew howls of outrage from tabloid press
- describes a trip to see his parents grave in a Leeds cemetry
- written during the miners strikes 1984-85
- best known work is long poem V(1985)
- best know collections are 'The Loiners(1970) and The School Of Eloquences
- his poems & translations show a powerful rhyme and expert adaptation of colloquial speach
- Personal Life
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