Penultimata Author:Robert Conquest Robert Conquest stresses poetry's relationship to the phenomenal universe-in particular to landscape, women, art, and war. His entirely individual poetic voice, varying from achieved lyrical sound and structure to other well-rendered forms and finish, gives us disturbing fictions, emotive landscapes, vivid erotica, off-beat humor, historical suf... more »ferings-and even odd demons, planets and philosophies. Born in 1917, Robert Conquest, along with Philip Larkin, Kingsley Amis, Thom Gunn and others, was a leading member of the so-called Movement. After distinguished service in the war, he became a diplomat and served as Margaret Thatcher's speechwriter. He is perhaps best known for his work as a historian, being one of the first to expose the whole truth about the Soviet regime.« less