Selected Poems Of Lawrence Durrell

Author : Lawrence Durrell
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 46,5 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 : 44,5 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 : Lawrence Durrell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 79 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:459265780

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Selected Poems. Lawrence Durrell by Lawrence Durrell Pdf

Author : Lawrence Durrell
Publisher : Viking
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 49,5 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 : Isabelle Keller-Privat
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 51,9 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 : Unknown
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : English poetry
ISBN : UOM:39015065960281

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The Ikons, and Other Poems by Lawrence Durrell Pdf

Author : Ian S. MacNiven
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 737 pages
File Size : 49,5 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 : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0992863279

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FRUITFUL DISCONTENT OF THE WORD by LAWRENCE. DURRELL Pdf

Author : Robert Duncan
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0811213455

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Selected Poems by Robert Duncan Pdf

Bertholf's selections are so attuned to the essentials of Duncan's writing that even those familiar with the whole body of Duncan's work will become more sensitized to his recurring imagery and consistency of thought pattern throughout this collection. --Publishers Weekly.

Author : Thomas Merton
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-12
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780811230711

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Selected Poems of Thomas Merton by Thomas Merton Pdf

Poet, Trappist monk, religious philosopher, translator, social critic: the late Thomas Merton was all these things. This classic selection from his great body of poetry affords a comprehensive view of his varied and progressively innovative work. Selected by Mark Van Doren and James Laughlin, this slim volume is now available again as a wonderful showcase of Thomas Merton’s splendid poetry.

Author : Lawrence Durrell
Publisher : Arcade Publishing
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 1559702478

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Caesar's Vast Ghost by Lawrence Durrell Pdf

Before Peter Mayle there was Lawrence Durrell, who for more than 30 years made Provence his home. In this, his last book, he distills the affection and understanding of half a lifetime, describing the rich culture and giving breath to the history that still invests the land. 39 color photos.

Author : Lawrence Durrell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1985-01-01
Category : English poetry
ISBN : 057113680X

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Collected Poems, 1931-1974 by Lawrence Durrell Pdf

This is a definitive edition of the collected poems of the author of 'The Alexandria Quartet' and 'The Avignon Quintet'. The volume is charged with Durrell's response to the 'spirit of place', which is one of his exceptional gifts as a writer.

Author : Lawrence Durrell
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-15
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780571288731

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Sicilian Carousel by Lawrence Durrell Pdf

Lose yourself in this vivid travelogue evoking the historic Mediterranean island of Sicily by the king of travel writing and real-life family member of The Durrells in Corfu. 'A magician.' The Times Despite decades spent poetically chronicling Mediterranean life in Rhodes, Cyprus and Corfu, celebrated travel writer Lawrence Durrell had never set foot on the largest island: Sicily. For years, his friend Martine begged him to visit her on this sun-kissed paradise, but it took her sudden death to finally bring him to its shores - and he is not disappointed. Joining an eccentric tour group, Durrell immerses himself in the island's spectacular archaeological remains, and becomes dizzy with Sicily's rich history: its mysterious myths and meanings. Featuring unpublished poems and illustrated with elegant engravings. Sicilian Carousel is a gem that ranks with Durrell's finest work. 'Readers who have been to Sicily will love this book. Readers who have not been to Sicily will love this book.' Paul Fussell 'Like long letters from a civilized and very funny friend - the prose as luminous as the Mediterranean air he loves.' Time

Author : Denise Levertov
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2003-09-17
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780811222396

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Selected Poems by Denise Levertov Pdf

Denise Levertov's Selected Poems delivers in a single accessible volume "one of the essential poets of our time" (Poetry Flash). Culled from two dozen poetry books, and drawing from six decades of her writing life, The Selected Poems of Denise Levertov offers a chronological overview of her great body of work. It is splendid and impressive to have at last a clear, unobstructed view of her ground-breaking poetry—the work of a poet who, as Kenneth Rexroth put it, "more than anyone, led the redirection of American poetry...to the mainstream of world literature." Described by Publishers Weekly as "at once as intimate as Creeley and as visionary as Duncan," Levertov was lauded as "one of the indispensable poets of our language, one of those few writers to whom it is necessary to pay attention" by The Malahat Review. No poet is more overdue for a single accessible volume; no career could be better to have within easy reach.

Author : Ezra Pound
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1957-01-17
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780811221900

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Selected Poems of Ezra Pound by Ezra Pound Pdf

Ezra Pound has been called "the inventor of modern poetry in English." The verse and criticism which he produced during the early years of the twentieth century very largely determined the directions of creative writing in our time; virtually every major poet in England and America today has acknowledged his help or influence. Pound's lyric genius, his superb technique, and his fresh insight into literary problems make him one of the small company of men who through the centuries have kept poetry alive—one of the great innovators. This book offers a compact yet representative selection of Ezra Pound's poems and translations. The span covered is Pound's entire writing career, from his early lyrics and the translations of Provençal songs to his English version of Sophocles' Trachiniae. Included are parts of his best known works—the Chinese translations, the sequence called Hugh Selwyn Mauberly, the Homage to Sextus Propertius. The Cantos, Pound's major epic, are presented in generous selections, chosen to emphasize the main themes of the whole poem.