John Pilling
John Pilling has written for PN Review for more than twenty-five years. He is best known for his work on Beckett, and for 50 Modern European Poets (Heinemann, 1984).
John Pilling's work featured in PN Review comprises two reports, 28 articles, and 109 reviews, over a period of 31 years. Also available are three reviews of John Pilling's work and one interview with John Pilling.
John Pilling's work featured in PN Review comprises two reports, 28 articles, and 109 reviews, over a period of 31 years. Also available are three reviews of John Pilling's work and one interview with John Pilling.
Further Reading
Report in PN Review 73 (1990) Samuel Beckett (1906 - 1989)
Report in PN Review 114 (1997) Pierre Reverdy and 'absolute reality'
Report in PN Review 114 (1997) Pierre Reverdy and 'absolute reality'
Article in PN Review 8 (1979) The Case of Andrew Biely
Article in PN Review 9 (1979) E. M. Cioran: An Introduction
Article in PN Review 10 (1979) Aspects of Kafka
Article in PN Review 15 (1980) Marginal Notes on the Prose of the Poet Mandelstam
Article in PN Review 18 (1981) A European Figure (Hölderlin)
Article in PN Review 21 (1981) Life and the Poet: Marina Tsvetaeva
Article in PN Review 28 (1982) The Other Canetti
Article in PN Review 33 (1983) Maurice Blanchot
Article in PN Review 34 (1983) A Traveller Between Two stations: Boris Pasternak
Article in PN Review 37 (1984) A Quiet Voice Overheard: Jean Follain
Article in PN Review 38 (1984) Ponge: The Pré and the Proem
Article in PN Review 40 (1984) Leopardi
Article in PN Review 41 (1985) Lermontov Redivivus
Article in PN Review 42 (1985) The Ikon of the Epoch: Anna Akhmatova
Article in PN Review 44 (1985) The Tongue that Found its Voice: Elias Canetti
Article in PN Review 51 (1986) Beckett at Eighty
Article in PN Review 54 (1987) Discoveries of Life: Rainer Maria Rilke
Article in PN Review 63 (1988) A Little Posthumous Prosperity: Raymond Roussel
Article in PN Review 71 (1990) In The Grain of The Voice: Yves Bonnefoy
Article in PN Review 75 (1990) The Other John Ashbery
Article in PN Review 84 (1992) Out of the Zeitgeist: Gregor Von Rezzori
Article in PN Review 99 (1994) Secret Sorcery, Early Ashbery
Article in PN Review 122 (1998) Lamb to the Slaughter: Jules Renard
Article in PN Review 123 (1998) Rilke Before Malte
Article in PN Review 132 (2000) Gunnar Ekelöf: a living dissonance
Article in PN Review 133 (2000) A Gregarious Man: Ramón Gomez de la Serna
Article in PN Review 137 (2001) Classics and Classifications: Borges, Calvino
Article in PN Review 154 (2003) Meditations on the Exote: Victor Segalen
Article in PN Review 9 (1979) E. M. Cioran: An Introduction
Article in PN Review 10 (1979) Aspects of Kafka
Article in PN Review 15 (1980) Marginal Notes on the Prose of the Poet Mandelstam
Article in PN Review 18 (1981) A European Figure (Hölderlin)
Article in PN Review 21 (1981) Life and the Poet: Marina Tsvetaeva
Article in PN Review 28 (1982) The Other Canetti
Article in PN Review 33 (1983) Maurice Blanchot
Article in PN Review 34 (1983) A Traveller Between Two stations: Boris Pasternak
Article in PN Review 37 (1984) A Quiet Voice Overheard: Jean Follain
Article in PN Review 38 (1984) Ponge: The Pré and the Proem
Article in PN Review 40 (1984) Leopardi
Article in PN Review 41 (1985) Lermontov Redivivus
Article in PN Review 42 (1985) The Ikon of the Epoch: Anna Akhmatova
Article in PN Review 44 (1985) The Tongue that Found its Voice: Elias Canetti
Article in PN Review 51 (1986) Beckett at Eighty
Article in PN Review 54 (1987) Discoveries of Life: Rainer Maria Rilke
Article in PN Review 63 (1988) A Little Posthumous Prosperity: Raymond Roussel
Article in PN Review 71 (1990) In The Grain of The Voice: Yves Bonnefoy
Article in PN Review 75 (1990) The Other John Ashbery
Article in PN Review 84 (1992) Out of the Zeitgeist: Gregor Von Rezzori
Article in PN Review 99 (1994) Secret Sorcery, Early Ashbery
Article in PN Review 122 (1998) Lamb to the Slaughter: Jules Renard
Article in PN Review 123 (1998) Rilke Before Malte
Article in PN Review 132 (2000) Gunnar Ekelöf: a living dissonance
Article in PN Review 133 (2000) A Gregarious Man: Ramón Gomez de la Serna
Article in PN Review 137 (2001) Classics and Classifications: Borges, Calvino
Article in PN Review 154 (2003) Meditations on the Exote: Victor Segalen
Review in PN Review 15 (1980) on Jaroslav Seifert, James Wright and Cesar Vallejo
Review in PN Review 17 (1981) on Avril Pyman's 'Life' of Aleksandr Blok
Review in PN Review 18 (1981) on Michael Riffaterre's 'Semiotics of Poetry'
Review in PN Review 20 (1981) on 'Three Russian Poets' and 'Femmes/Hombres'
Review in PN Review 20 (1981) on Anthony Hecht's 'The Venetian Vespers'
Review in PN Review 30 (1983) on critical works by Ronald Hingley and Theo Hermans
Review in PN Review 32 (1983) on D. M. Thomas's Pushkin
Review in PN Review 32 (1983) on Yehuda Amichai and Tadeusz Rozewicz
Review in PN Review 33 (1983) on Robert Walser
Review in PN Review 34 (1983) on the Poetry of Modern Russia (collections)
Review in PN Review 34 (1983) on André Breton
Review in PN Review 34 (1983) Note on books about Alexander Blok and George Seferis
Review in PN Review 37 (1984) on Jean-Claude Renard
Review in PN Review 38 (1984) on Li He
Review in PN Review 40 (1984) on Anna Akhmatova
Review in PN Review 41 (1985) Edith Södergran
Review in PN Review 42 (1985) on Ion Caraion and Marin Sorescu
Review in PN Review 42 (1985) on Boris Pasternak and Heinz Winfried Sabais
Review in PN Review 44 (1985) on Mallarmé Tomb for Anatole
Review in PN Review 45 (1985) on Jonathan Galassi's Montale
Review in PN Review 50 (1986) on Yves Bonnefoy
Review in PN Review 51 (1986) on modern Spanish poetry
Review in PN Review 52 (1986) on Eugenio de Andrade
Review in PN Review 53 (1987) on Emmanuel Bove
Review in PN Review 53 (1987) on Montale
Review in PN Review 53 (1987) on Whigham's Martial
Review in PN Review 53 (1987) on Claus, Dinescu and Levchev
Review in PN Review 54 (1987) on Poetry in a Divided World
Review in PN Review 54 (1987) on Jaroslav Seifert
Review in PN Review 55 (1987) on Romania poetry
Review in PN Review 55 (1987) on Pessoa
Review in PN Review 55 (1987) on Rolf Jacobsen
Review in PN Review 57 (1987) on Peter Huchel
Review in PN Review 58 (1987) on Miguel Hernández
Review in PN Review 59 (1988) on Fernando Pessoa
Review in PN Review 60 (1988) on Kjell Espmark and Adam Zagajewski
Review in PN Review 61 (1988) on Marina Tsvetayeva
Review in PN Review 62 (1988) on Hugo Claus
Review in PN Review 64 (1988) on Modern Polish Poetry
Review in PN Review 67 (1989) on Swedish Poetry
Review in PN Review 67 (1989) on Nicolas Bouvier
Review in PN Review 68 (1989) on Zbigniew Herbert
Review in PN Review 72 (1990) on Anna Akhmatova
Review in PN Review 73 (1990) on Ivan V. Lalić
Review in PN Review 73 (1990) on Michael Hamburger
Review in PN Review 74 (1990) on Celan and Black Letters Unleashed
Review in PN Review 74 (1990) on Miroslav Holub
Review in PN Review 74 (1990) on Salvador Espriu
Review in PN Review 76 (1990) on Daniil Kharms, Elisabeth Borchers, and Finland Swedish Poetry
Review in PN Review 76 (1990) on Ivan Davidkov and Yannis Ritsos
Review in PN Review 77 (1991) on Friedrich Hölderlin
Review in PN Review 77 (1991) on Mallarmé
Review in PN Review 77 (1991) on Vittorio Sereni
Review in PN Review 79 (1991) On East European, Finnish and Bulgarian Poetry, Tua Forsström, Bella Akhmadulina
Review in PN Review 79 (1991) on Michael Leiris
Review in PN Review 79 (1991) on Richard Stamelman
Review in PN Review 80 (1991) on Cyprian Norwid
Review in PN Review 80 (1991) on Yves Bonnefoy
Review in PN Review 80 (1991) on Federico Garcia Lorca and Eugenio Montale
Review in PN Review 81 (1991) on Pablo Neruda and Edith Södergran
Review in PN Review 81 (1991) on Primo Levi
Review in PN Review 82 (1991) on Osip Mandelstam
Review in PN Review 83 (1992) on Paavo Haavikko
Review in PN Review 83 (1992) on Jean Tardieu
Review in PN Review 84 (1992) on Writing of or about Primo Levi
Review in PN Review 84 (1992) on George Heym, Odysseus Elytis, Takis Varvitsiotis
Review in PN Review 84 (1992) on Osip Mandelstam, Rutger Kopland, Rabindranath Tagore
Review in PN Review 84 (1992) on Paul Celan
Review in PN Review 84 (1992) on Louis Aragon
Review in PN Review 84 (1992) on Elias Canetti
Review in PN Review 84 (1992) on George Seferis
Review in PN Review 84 (1992) on Edouard Dujardin
Review in PN Review 84 (1992) on Piotr Sommer and György Petri
Review in PN Review 86 (1992) on Primo Levi, Claud Vigée and T.S. Eliot in French
Review in PN Review 86 (1992) on The Poetry of Survival and Poetry of the Canary Islands
Review in PN Review 87 (1992) on Memoir of Italo Svevo
Review in PN Review 89 (1993) on Modern Poetry in Translation
Review in PN Review 90 (1993) on Novalis
Review in PN Review 90 (1993) on Osip Mandelstam and Fernando Pessoa
Review in PN Review 90 (1993) on Bloodaxe Contemporary French Poets Series, Jaques Dupin, Maryann De Julio and Jean Cocteau
Review in PN Review 90 (1993) on the Faber Book of Modern European Poetry
Review in PN Review 91 (1993) on Franz Baerman Steiner
Review in PN Review 91 (1993) on Aleksandr Kushner and Miroslav Holub
Review in PN Review 91 (1993) on Franco Fortini
Review in PN Review 91 (1993) on Gerrit Achterberg and H.C. ten Berge
Review in PN Review 91 (1993) on Susan Amert's later poetry of Anna Akhmatova
Review in PN Review 92 (1993) on Samuel Beckett
Review in PN Review 92 (1993) on Federico García Lorca and Constantine Cavafy
Review in PN Review 92 (1993) on Ivo Andric; and Marina Tsvetaeva
Review in PN Review 92 (1993) on Anna Akmatova and Tsvetaeva
Review in PN Review 93 (1993) Gösta Ågren and Bo Carpelan and on Antonio Machado
Review in PN Review 94 (1993) on French Poets
Review in PN Review 97 (1994) on Henrik Ibsen, Kjell Espmark, Ottó Orbán and Michael Krüger
Review in PN Review 97 (1994) on Anthony Barnett and Andrea Zanzotto
Review in PN Review 98 (1994) on Attilio Bertolucci, Federico Mayor, Elisaveta Bagryana and Elena Shvarts
Review in PN Review 101 (1995) on Akhmotova, Tranströmer, Anna Kamienska, Hans Faverey, Heinz Piontek, Hans Magnus Enzensberger and Jean-Jacques Celly
Review in PN Review 103 (1995) on Giacomo Leopardi and Pablo Neruda
Review in PN Review 106 (1995) on Tsvetaeva, Mandelstam, Boye, Ra'hel
Review in PN Review 108 (1996) on Pessoa, Milosz, Césaire, Jaccottet, Gaspar, Ponge
Review in PN Review 109 (1996) on John Ashbery, Yves Bonnefoy and Osip Mandelstam
Review in PN Review 114 (1997) on Russian Literary History and Camões' legacy
Review in PN Review 115 (1997) on French, Hungarian and Israeli poetry
Review in PN Review 117 (1997) on Rimbaud
Review in PN Review 128 (1999) on Rilke, Modersohn-Becker and Paul Celan
Review in PN Review 145 (2002) on Marin Sorescu
Review in PN Review 160 (2004) on Jean Cassou, Jacques Prévert and Olav H. Hauge
Review in PN Review 163 (2005) on Mallarmé
Review in PN Review 184 (2008) on C.P. Cavafy
Review in PN Review 185 (2009) on 'Alberto Caeiro'
Review in PN Review 17 (1981) on Avril Pyman's 'Life' of Aleksandr Blok
Review in PN Review 18 (1981) on Michael Riffaterre's 'Semiotics of Poetry'
Review in PN Review 20 (1981) on 'Three Russian Poets' and 'Femmes/Hombres'
Review in PN Review 20 (1981) on Anthony Hecht's 'The Venetian Vespers'
Review in PN Review 30 (1983) on critical works by Ronald Hingley and Theo Hermans
Review in PN Review 32 (1983) on D. M. Thomas's Pushkin
Review in PN Review 32 (1983) on Yehuda Amichai and Tadeusz Rozewicz
Review in PN Review 33 (1983) on Robert Walser
Review in PN Review 34 (1983) on the Poetry of Modern Russia (collections)
Review in PN Review 34 (1983) on André Breton
Review in PN Review 34 (1983) Note on books about Alexander Blok and George Seferis
Review in PN Review 37 (1984) on Jean-Claude Renard
Review in PN Review 38 (1984) on Li He
Review in PN Review 40 (1984) on Anna Akhmatova
Review in PN Review 41 (1985) Edith Södergran
Review in PN Review 42 (1985) on Ion Caraion and Marin Sorescu
Review in PN Review 42 (1985) on Boris Pasternak and Heinz Winfried Sabais
Review in PN Review 44 (1985) on Mallarmé Tomb for Anatole
Review in PN Review 45 (1985) on Jonathan Galassi's Montale
Review in PN Review 50 (1986) on Yves Bonnefoy
Review in PN Review 51 (1986) on modern Spanish poetry
Review in PN Review 52 (1986) on Eugenio de Andrade
Review in PN Review 53 (1987) on Emmanuel Bove
Review in PN Review 53 (1987) on Montale
Review in PN Review 53 (1987) on Whigham's Martial
Review in PN Review 53 (1987) on Claus, Dinescu and Levchev
Review in PN Review 54 (1987) on Poetry in a Divided World
Review in PN Review 54 (1987) on Jaroslav Seifert
Review in PN Review 55 (1987) on Romania poetry
Review in PN Review 55 (1987) on Pessoa
Review in PN Review 55 (1987) on Rolf Jacobsen
Review in PN Review 57 (1987) on Peter Huchel
Review in PN Review 58 (1987) on Miguel Hernández
Review in PN Review 59 (1988) on Fernando Pessoa
Review in PN Review 60 (1988) on Kjell Espmark and Adam Zagajewski
Review in PN Review 61 (1988) on Marina Tsvetayeva
Review in PN Review 62 (1988) on Hugo Claus
Review in PN Review 64 (1988) on Modern Polish Poetry
Review in PN Review 67 (1989) on Swedish Poetry
Review in PN Review 67 (1989) on Nicolas Bouvier
Review in PN Review 68 (1989) on Zbigniew Herbert
Review in PN Review 72 (1990) on Anna Akhmatova
Review in PN Review 73 (1990) on Ivan V. Lalić
Review in PN Review 73 (1990) on Michael Hamburger
Review in PN Review 74 (1990) on Celan and Black Letters Unleashed
Review in PN Review 74 (1990) on Miroslav Holub
Review in PN Review 74 (1990) on Salvador Espriu
Review in PN Review 76 (1990) on Daniil Kharms, Elisabeth Borchers, and Finland Swedish Poetry
Review in PN Review 76 (1990) on Ivan Davidkov and Yannis Ritsos
Review in PN Review 77 (1991) on Friedrich Hölderlin
Review in PN Review 77 (1991) on Mallarmé
Review in PN Review 77 (1991) on Vittorio Sereni
Review in PN Review 79 (1991) On East European, Finnish and Bulgarian Poetry, Tua Forsström, Bella Akhmadulina
Review in PN Review 79 (1991) on Michael Leiris
Review in PN Review 79 (1991) on Richard Stamelman
Review in PN Review 80 (1991) on Cyprian Norwid
Review in PN Review 80 (1991) on Yves Bonnefoy
Review in PN Review 80 (1991) on Federico Garcia Lorca and Eugenio Montale
Review in PN Review 81 (1991) on Pablo Neruda and Edith Södergran
Review in PN Review 81 (1991) on Primo Levi
Review in PN Review 82 (1991) on Osip Mandelstam
Review in PN Review 83 (1992) on Paavo Haavikko
Review in PN Review 83 (1992) on Jean Tardieu
Review in PN Review 84 (1992) on Writing of or about Primo Levi
Review in PN Review 84 (1992) on George Heym, Odysseus Elytis, Takis Varvitsiotis
Review in PN Review 84 (1992) on Osip Mandelstam, Rutger Kopland, Rabindranath Tagore
Review in PN Review 84 (1992) on Paul Celan
Review in PN Review 84 (1992) on Louis Aragon
Review in PN Review 84 (1992) on Elias Canetti
Review in PN Review 84 (1992) on George Seferis
Review in PN Review 84 (1992) on Edouard Dujardin
Review in PN Review 84 (1992) on Piotr Sommer and György Petri
Review in PN Review 86 (1992) on Primo Levi, Claud Vigée and T.S. Eliot in French
Review in PN Review 86 (1992) on The Poetry of Survival and Poetry of the Canary Islands
Review in PN Review 87 (1992) on Memoir of Italo Svevo
Review in PN Review 89 (1993) on Modern Poetry in Translation
Review in PN Review 90 (1993) on Novalis
Review in PN Review 90 (1993) on Osip Mandelstam and Fernando Pessoa
Review in PN Review 90 (1993) on Bloodaxe Contemporary French Poets Series, Jaques Dupin, Maryann De Julio and Jean Cocteau
Review in PN Review 90 (1993) on the Faber Book of Modern European Poetry
Review in PN Review 91 (1993) on Franz Baerman Steiner
Review in PN Review 91 (1993) on Aleksandr Kushner and Miroslav Holub
Review in PN Review 91 (1993) on Franco Fortini
Review in PN Review 91 (1993) on Gerrit Achterberg and H.C. ten Berge
Review in PN Review 91 (1993) on Susan Amert's later poetry of Anna Akhmatova
Review in PN Review 92 (1993) on Samuel Beckett
Review in PN Review 92 (1993) on Federico García Lorca and Constantine Cavafy
Review in PN Review 92 (1993) on Ivo Andric; and Marina Tsvetaeva
Review in PN Review 92 (1993) on Anna Akmatova and Tsvetaeva
Review in PN Review 93 (1993) Gösta Ågren and Bo Carpelan and on Antonio Machado
Review in PN Review 94 (1993) on French Poets
Review in PN Review 97 (1994) on Henrik Ibsen, Kjell Espmark, Ottó Orbán and Michael Krüger
Review in PN Review 97 (1994) on Anthony Barnett and Andrea Zanzotto
Review in PN Review 98 (1994) on Attilio Bertolucci, Federico Mayor, Elisaveta Bagryana and Elena Shvarts
Review in PN Review 101 (1995) on Akhmotova, Tranströmer, Anna Kamienska, Hans Faverey, Heinz Piontek, Hans Magnus Enzensberger and Jean-Jacques Celly
Review in PN Review 103 (1995) on Giacomo Leopardi and Pablo Neruda
Review in PN Review 106 (1995) on Tsvetaeva, Mandelstam, Boye, Ra'hel
Review in PN Review 108 (1996) on Pessoa, Milosz, Césaire, Jaccottet, Gaspar, Ponge
Review in PN Review 109 (1996) on John Ashbery, Yves Bonnefoy and Osip Mandelstam
Review in PN Review 114 (1997) on Russian Literary History and Camões' legacy
Review in PN Review 115 (1997) on French, Hungarian and Israeli poetry
Review in PN Review 117 (1997) on Rimbaud
Review in PN Review 128 (1999) on Rilke, Modersohn-Becker and Paul Celan
Review in PN Review 145 (2002) on Marin Sorescu
Review in PN Review 160 (2004) on Jean Cassou, Jacques Prévert and Olav H. Hauge
Review in PN Review 163 (2005) on Mallarmé
Review in PN Review 184 (2008) on C.P. Cavafy
Review in PN Review 185 (2009) on 'Alberto Caeiro'
Reviewed by Bernard Bergonzi in PN Review 24 (1982) on John Pilling's 'Studies in Self-Scrutiny'
Reviewed by Peter Levi in PN Review 30 (1983) on 'Fifty Modern European Poets' by John Pilling
Reviewed by Richard Swigg in PN Review 34 (1983) on Charles Tomlinson's Poetry & Metamorphosis
Reviewed by Peter Levi in PN Review 30 (1983) on 'Fifty Modern European Poets' by John Pilling
Reviewed by Richard Swigg in PN Review 34 (1983) on Charles Tomlinson's Poetry & Metamorphosis
Interviewed by Raphaëlle Rérolle in PN Review 172 (2006) António Lobo Antunes in conversation translated by John Pilling