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Tony Harrison: Still

 

Poem Title

Original Publication

CP Page no

Still

Selected Poems, London: Penguin, 1984 (published simultaneously by Viking)

151

 

Length / Form Sixteen line sonnet.

Allusion to Classical figure Xenophon

Relationship to Classical text Memory of Greek exams, class-consciousness (‘Tugging my forelock fathoming Xenophon’).

Note Grouped under the ‘Two’ sequence of poems.