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.
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 avid readers will have been putting to themselves. 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. He 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.
Considered to be a great help to teachers, From Beowulf to Prufrock retails at R360 from Adams Musgrave.
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