Lawrence Durrell S Poetry

Author : Lawrence Durrell
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2011-12-15
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780571262205

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Selected Poems of Lawrence Durrell by Lawrence Durrell Pdf

In this new selection from the poetry of Lawrence Durrell (the first for thirty years), Peter Porter has drawn on the full range of the published work, from A Private Country (1943) to Vega (1973), and has provided a long overdue revaluation of Durrell's poetic career. In his detailed and generous introduction, Porter makes the case for A Private Country as one of the most accomplished debut collections of the twentieth century, and traces Durrell's preoccupations and poetic personality within the wider scene. The selection of poems makes its own strong case for the continuing power and originality of this attractive, metropolitan and wholly individual body of work.

Author : Lawrence Durrell
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780571288809

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Collected Poems 1931-74 by Lawrence Durrell Pdf

Lawrence Durrell's success as a novelist may have tended to obscure his achievement as a poet and in poetry. It is primarily as a lyrical poet of places that he was acknowledged to excel, but in Collected Poems it will be found that the range of feeling and ideas, of wit and experience, and also of style, is remarkable. The whole volume is charged with Durrell's response to the 'spirit of place', which is one of this exceptional gifts as a writer. 'They range from affecting and beautiful love poems to skilful, succinct portraits and robust ballads . . . Rich in ideas.' -- Alan Ross 'As a lyrical poet . . . he is the equal of Auden.' -- Gavin Ewart 'Durrell's poetry compels the highest standard of judgement . . . The effect of reading him is to have one's love of poetry rekindled . . . Genuine life, genuine emotion, genuine art.' -- John Wain

Author : Isabelle Keller-Privat
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781683930631

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Lawrence Durrell’s Poetry by Isabelle Keller-Privat Pdf

This book offers the first in-depth analysis of Lawrence Durrell’s entire poetic opus, from his early collections in the 1940s up to his last one published in 1973. Thirty years of Durrellian poetry are brought together in order to unveil the genesis of Durrell’s writing, both poetic and fictional, drawing links to his novels and residence books, which he kept writing at the same time. Durrell thus appears as first and foremost one of the greatest late modernist poets whose literary and epistemological investigations are to be understood in the light of a worldwide network of literary brotherhoods including T. S. Eliot, Michael Fraenkel, Henry Miller, and David Gascoyne. Simultaneously, this book shows why Durrell must also be read as the heir to the greatest English romantic poets (Byron, Shelley, Keats, and Wordsworth) as well as to the French symbolists and modernists (from Baudelaire to Nerval, Valéry, and Cendrars).This comparative approach opens up a brand new perspective on Durrell that has not yet been broached by North American and English scholarship. The symbolic patterns, the stylistic ploys, and the aesthetic and philosophic tenets that characterize Durrell’s poetics account for the necessary back-and-forth reading that connects prose and poetry, the fictional and the lyrical, the descriptive and the abstract. Poetry excerpts, extracts from his residence books, novels, and essays highlight not only Durrell’s complex literary strategies but also the ontological quest of a writer who, although never at home with the world he lived in, strove to create a life-world, what semiologists call the “Umwelt.”

Author : Lawrence Durrell
Publisher : Viking
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Fiction
ISBN : STANFORD:36105005350934

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Collected Poems, 1931-1974 by Lawrence Durrell Pdf

Lawrence Durrell: Conversations contains over thirty of the one hundred or more interviews in which Durrell participated during the last thirty-five years of his life. Many of these interviews are "celebrity" interviews that grew out of his need to help publicize his writing. The collection of interviews also contains a number of "literary" interviews in which academics in literature ask Durrell questions about his novels, poems, and travel books.

Author : Lawrence Durrell
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012-06-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781453261453

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Monsieur by Lawrence Durrell Pdf

From the olive trees of southern France to Gnostic cults in Egypt, a man and his lovers are invented and reinvented in this first volume of a great literary adventure. For British doctor Bruce Drexel, a return to Provence is bittersweet. Here, at a rustic chateau, he once fell in love with Sylvie, the Frenchwoman who would become his wife, and befriended her brother, Piers. The three made up a peculiar, potent ménage for years until Sylvie’s descent into madness and Piers’s suicide. As Drexel attends to Piers’s affairs, he becomes steeped in the memories of a spiritually transformational trip to Egypt; the band of intellectual confederates who used to be his intimate friends; and a three-sided love that became his reason for being. So begins Monsieur, the masterful first entry of Durrell’s Avignon Quintet, an infinite regress of memory and imagination that challenges the formal conventions of fiction.

Author : Ian S. MacNiven
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 737 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781504063104

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Lawrence Durrell by Ian S. MacNiven Pdf

The prize-winning biography of the celebrated author of the Alexandria Quartet and the Avignon Quintet: an “elegant and meticulous . . . treat” (Kirkus Reviews). A New York Times Notable Book Born in colonial India in 1912, Lawrence Durrell established his literary reputation as a citizen of the Mediterranean. After attending school in England, Durrell escaped the country he dubbed “Pudding Island” for the Greek island of Corfu, only to make another escape—this time from Nazi invasion—to Egypt. His experiences in wartime Alexandria led to a quartet of novels, beginning with Justine, that are collectively considered some of the great masterpieces of postwar fiction. Durrell’s peripatetic life, which eventually took him to the South of France, fed his work with the richness and drama of his various adoptive homes. A man of protean talents, Durrell is celebrated for his fiction and poetry, as well has his highly regarded translations, essays, and travel literature. In researching this authorized biography, Ian S. MacNiven traveled over a period of twenty years from India to California, interviewing hundreds of individuals and visiting all but one of the many places Durrell lived. The result is an intimate portrait of a literary titan that was awarded a prize by the French city of Antibes for the year’s best study on Durrell.

Author : Lawrence Durrell
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781453261514

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The Dark Labyrinth by Lawrence Durrell Pdf

DIVDIVWho will survive the Labyrinth of Crete?/divDIV /divDIVA group of English cruise-ship tourists debark to visit the isle of Crete’s famed labyrinth, the City in the Rock. The motley gathering includes a painter, a poet, a soldier, an elderly married couple, a medium, a convalescent girl, and the mysterious Lord Gracean. The group is prepared for a trifling day of sightseeing and maybe even a glimpse of the legendary Minotaur, but instead is suddenly stuck in a nightmare when a rockslide traps them deep within the labyrinth. Who among the passengers will make it out alive? And for those who emerge, will anything ever be the same?/div/div

Author : Lawrence Durrell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 79 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:459265780

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Selected Poems. Lawrence Durrell by Lawrence Durrell Pdf

Author : Joanna Hodgkin
Publisher : Virago
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780748131099

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Amateurs In Eden by Joanna Hodgkin Pdf

Nancy Durrell was a woman famous for her silences. Anaïs Nin said 'I think often of Nancy's most eloquent silences, Nancy talking with her fingers, her hair, her cheeks, a wonderful gift. Music again.' As the first wife Lawrence Durrell, author of The Alexandria Quartet, it is perhaps surprising that she is an unknown entity, a constant presence in the biographies of Durrell and others in the Bloomsbury set, yet always a shadowy figure, beautiful and enigmatic. But who was the woman who was with Durrell during the most important years of his development as a writer? Joanna Hodgkin decides to retrace her mother's fascinating story: the escape from her toxic and mysterious family; the years in bohemian literary London and Paris in the 1930s; marriage to Durrell and their discovery of the 'Eden' of pre-war Corfu and her desperate struggle to survive in Palestine alone with a small child as the British Mandate collapsed. Amateurs in Eden is a fascinating biography of a literary marriage and of an unusual woman struggling to live an independent life.

Author : LAWRENCE. DURRELL
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0992863279

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FRUITFUL DISCONTENT OF THE WORD by LAWRENCE. DURRELL Pdf

Author : Lawrence Durrell
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1022887416

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Poetry by Lawrence Durrell Pdf

Discover the timeless beauty of Lawrence Durrell's poetry in this elegant collection. From love and loss to the mysteries of the universe, Durrell's verse captures the essence of the human experience. Whether you are a longtime fan of his work or discovering it for the first time, Poetry is sure to inspire and delight. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Anna Lillios
Publisher : Susquehanna University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1575910764

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Lawrence Durrell and the Greek World by Anna Lillios Pdf

Novelist Lawrence Durrell's fondness for his adopted homeland of Greece led him to declare "I'm a Greek," and profoundly influenced his work. Attempting to capture the scope of the Greek world's relationship with Durrell's life and work, Lilios (English, U. of Central Florida) presents 22 papers that approach the topic from a range of perspectives. After a number of reminiscences of Durrell by family and friends, a set of essays are organized by place, examining Durrell's relationship with Corfu, Alexandria, Rhodes, and Cyprus. The remaining essays are grouped according to theme discussing such issues as the influence of myth and other "Greek inspirations" on Durrell's novels, poems, and other work. Distributed by Associated University Presses. Annotation ♭2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

Author : Lawrence Durrell
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012-06-07
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780571265213

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Prospero's Cell by Lawrence Durrell Pdf

Lose yourself in this glorious memoir of the island jewel of Corfu by the king of travel writing and real-life family member of The Durrells in Corfu. 'In its gem-like miniature quality, among the best books ever written.' New York Times In his youth, before he became a celebrated writer and poet, Lawrence Durrell spent four transformative years on the island jewel of Corfu, fascinated by the idyllic natural beauty and blood-stained ancient history within its rocky shores. While his brother Gerald collected animals as a budding naturalist - later fictionalised in My Family and Other Animals and filmed as The Durrells in Corfu - Lawrence fished, drank and befriended the local villagers. After World War II catapulted him back into a turmoiled world, Durrell never forgot the wonders of Corfu. Prospero's Cell is his magical evocation of the blazing Aegean landscape, brimming with memories of the places and people that changed him forever. 'Some writers reinvent their language; others the world. Durrell did both.' André Aciman 'Invades the reader's every sense ... Remarkable.' Victoria Hislop 'Our last great garlicky master of the vanishing Mediterranean.' Richard Holmes 'These days I am admiring and re-admiring Lawrence Durrell.' Elif Shafak 'Corfu could not have found a fitter chronicler.' Daily Telegraph 'A charming idyll ... Delightful.' Sunday Times

Author : Lawrence Durrell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Cyprus
ISBN : 1604190043

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Bitter Lemons by Lawrence Durrell Pdf

In Bitter Lemons, Durrell tells the perceptive, often humorous, story of his experiences on Cyprus between 1953 and 1956-first as a visitor, then as a householder and teacher, and finally as Press Advisor to a government coping with armed rebellion. Here are unforgettable pictures of the sunlit villages and people, the ancient buildings, mountains and sea-and the somber political tragedy that finally engulfed the island.

Author : Lawrence Durrell
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2012-06-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781453261569

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A Smile in the Mind's Eye by Lawrence Durrell Pdf

The “virtuoso” author’s memoir of his spiritual journey with famed Taoist philosopher Jolan Chang (The New York Times). Beginning with their first meeting over lunch at Lawrence Durrell’s Provencal home, Durrell and Jolan Chang—renowned Taoist philosopher and expert on Eastern sexuality—developed an enduring relationship based on mutual spiritual exploration. Durrell’s autobiographical rumination on their friendship and on Taoism recounts the author’s existential ponderings, starting with his introduction to the mystical and enigmatic “smile in the mind’s eye.” From parsimony, cooking, and yoga to poetry, Petrarch, and Nietzche, A Smile in the Mind’s Eye is a charming tale of a writer’s spiritual and philosophical awakening.