The Letters of Douglas Oliver and J.H. Prynne, 1967-2000 Oli Hazzard ” to echo de Campos

” to echo de Campos

and playfulness of Bashō's originals

and brilliance

with some attention to the Epodes and Epistles

The Letters of Douglas Oliver and J.H. Prynne, 1967-2000 Oli Hazzard ” to echo de Camposed. Joe Luna Douglas Oliver (19372000) and J. H. Prynne (b. 1936) are two of the most original and ambitious poets of the contemporary era. Eschewing the conservativism of mainstream postwar British verse and embracing influences from America and Europe, each developed their craft through continuous correspondence and exchange as part of the febrile scene of poetical community and contestation that emerged in Cambridge in the 1960s. Their works over