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David Pollard

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Born
in London, The United Kingdom
Genre

Influences
Heidegger, Nietzsche, Dostoievski, Levinas, etc

Member Since
April 2008


David Pollard was born in London in 1942. He fled accountancy to the University of Sussex where he was given his three degrees in literature, the history of ideas and philosophy. The last of these, a doctorate, was published as The Poetry of Keats: Language and Experience and is a Heideggerian interpretation of the poet. He has also published other work on Keats, as well as on Blake and Nietzsche. His latest, Nietzsche’s Footfalls, a meditation on the philosopher and his times, came out in 2003. He has also reviewed extensively in the fields of both philosophy and literature. Pollard’s work has appeared in: Omphalos, Tears in the Fence, Aletheia, Fire, Eratica, Eclipse and Poetry Monthly. He is curently writing a comparison of Blake and Nie ...more

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Teach Yourself Turkish Comp...

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Nietzsche's Footfalls

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A User's Guide to Measure T...

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The Poetry of Keats: Langua...

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Patricides

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Risk of Skin

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David Pollard David Pollard said: " Here is a major man! A first publication of his work. Complex subtle and brilliant. If you read no other new poet this year (excluding me of course!) read this! "

 
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