J.H Prynne notes for NET/SET exam
- Jeremy Halvard Prynne (born 24 June 1936) is a British poet who was a key figure in the British Poetry Revival.
- Charles Olson and Donald Davie were among Prynne’s early influences.
Force of Circumstance and Other Poems, his first book, was released in 1962; Prynne has removed it from his canon. - Prynne was a notable contributor to The English Intelligencer and a key player in the Cambridge group of Revival poets.
- Prynne has written critical and academic writing in addition to poetry.
- A transcript of a 1971 lecture on Olson’s Maximus Poems given at Simon Fraser University has gone viral.
- In 2016, The Paris Review published an extensive interview with Prynne about his poetic approach as part of its “The Art of Poetry” series.
- In October 2005, he retired from his positions as a Lecturer and University Reader in English Poetry at the University of Cambridge and as Director of Studies in English at Gonville and Caius College; in September 2006, he retired from his position as College Librarian.