{"product_id":"9781857540574","title":"As I Was Saying Yesterday: Selected Essays \u0026 Reviews","description":"This collection offers the wise, wickedly wry extended essays that Beer wrote for \u003ci\u003eThe London Review of Books,\u003c\/i\u003e the \u003ci\u003eListener,\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e during the last 25 years of her life. Borrowing literary examples from Dickens, Owen, and Shakespeare, Beer’s satire belongs to the generation including D. J. Enright and Donald Davie and covers remarkably varied subjects. A critic of contemporary literary trends and religious fervor, Beer was known by one critic as “a religious poet stripped of the blurring consolations of religion.”\u003cp\u003ePatricia Beer was a professor of English literature at Goldsmith’s College in London. Beer’s published poetry includes \u003ci\u003eCollected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAutumn.\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Carcanet Press, Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47058311938288,"sku":"9781857540574","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781857540574_p0.jpg?v=1763599119","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781857540574","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}