A. Alvarez writes of people under pressure. His two novels, Hers (1974) and Hunt (1978), rigorously explore the tensions of private experience. Apparent in this fiction as well as in his criticism and...
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Alfred Alvarez is better known as a critic and reviewer than as a poet. Anne Stevenson, for example, speaks of him as a critic who set his stamp "on a whole generation of poets who were coming into fl...
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A(lfred) Alvarez
