Review “One feels better for having read Richard Swigg’s Quick, Said the Bird. Swigg links Eliot to his alleged opposite, Williams, and then links them both to Moore—a valuable endeavor. There is a genial, learned, sensitive, emotionally vital quality to Swigg’s commentary. This is a beautifully written, highly intelligent study that will stay with the reader for some time.”—Steven Gould Axelrod, coeditor, The New Anthology of American Poetry, volume 2, Modernisms, 1900–1950 Read more About the Author Richard Swigg was formerly a senior lecturer in the Department of English at Keele University. He is the author of Lawrence, Hardy and American Literature, Charles Tomlinson and the Objective Tradition, and Look with the Ears: Charles Tomlinson’s Poetry of Sound.He has collected, edited, and published the collected recordings of William Carlos Williams, Charles Tomlinson, Basil Bunting, and Hugh MacDiarmid. In 2007, PennSound published his collection of Williams recordings online and in 2009 published his collection of George Oppen recordings. Read more
