Flower power

摘要

James fenton has led a busy life. In the late 1970s, while an undergraduate at Oxford University, he began his career in journalism: as a book reviewer, then as a war reporter, a foreign correspondent, a theatre critic and now as a popular commentator on American politics. From 1994 until 1999 he was Oxford professor of poetry and, more lucratively, wrote an early libretto for "Les Miserables", the hit musical of Victor Hugo's sprawling novel. During all this time, he has also written poetry.