Adams Booksellers Musgrave Centre and Solo
Collective will launch Peter Strauss’s history of English literature From
Beowulf to Prufrock: One Thousand Years of English Writing on October 31 at
17h30.
By juxtaposing an account of the background
with examples of the work of each particular era, this book tells the story of
how the great writers of the past responded to the deeper, underlying changes
of history. The book aims to answer the questions which an avid reader will
have been putting to himself. As one reader said, “What was once a fuzzy blur
has at last become clear.” The style is conversational, the point of view
personal and undogmatic. A fascinating read, it covers an extraordinarily wide
range.
Peter Strauss was born in Pietermaritzburg
in 1941, attended Maritzburg College, studied at the University of Natal (Pmb)
and at Downing College, Cambridge. He taught English literature at the Durban
branch of UKZN for over 30 years. He has written a book on poetry entitled Talking
Poetry (David Philip) and three volumes of verse, Photographs of Bushmen
(Bateleur Press), Bishop Bernward’s Door and other poems (David Philip)
and The Owl and the Moon (Carapace).
He has received the Pringle Award three
times, twice for literary articles on Spenser and Ted Hughes and once for the
poem Bishop Bernward’s Door.
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