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Author : Frances Spalding
Publisher : Sutton Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Poets, English
ISBN : 0750928603
This updated edition of the classic biography questions the accepted perception of Stevie Smith as a recluse.
Author : Jack Barbera,William McBrien
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Poets, English
ISBN : UOM:49015000142605
Stevie Smith, who died in 1971, remains one of the most fascinating and original English literary figures of this century. Her wit and eccentricity have become legend, her personal style was unique, her poems are among the oddest, funniest, and most moving in the language. Her life was so compelling that it became the subject of a play and a film, both starring Glenda Jackson. In this charming biography, Jack Barbera and William McBrien capture the essence of a remarkable woman and her impact on the literary scene. Drawing on a wealth of private and archival material, much of it previously unknown, they present the fullest and most convincing portrait yet of Stevie Smith's life and work. They depict the unhappiness of her long childhood exile in the hospital with tuberculosis, her father's abandonment of the family, and her mother's early death. And they paint a rich portrait of her adult life, which was spent almost entirely in a genteel North London suburb and shared with a beloved aunt. Although Stevie gained an international following in 1936 with the publication of Novel on Yellow Paper, she continued to work for more than 30 years as a secretary in a publishing house. Her writing later ceased to be fashionable but in the 1960s, she enjoyed a new wave of recognition as a performer, broadcaster, and literary reviewer, receiving in 1969 the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry. Replete with anecdotes from Stevie's friends and excerpts from her work, this biography offers new insights into the charm and paradox of a unique poet as well as into her writings and the world in which she moved.
Author : Stevie Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1937
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UVA:X000065461
Author : Sanford Sternlicht
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0815625049
Author : Jack Barbera,William McBrien
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0195056574
Jack Barbera and William McBrien's delightful biography of Stevie Smith--one of the most fascinating and original English literary figures of this century--captures the essence of a remarkable woman and her impact on the literary scene. Drawing on a wealth of private and archival materials, they present the fullest and most convincing portrait yet of her life and work. They depict the unhappiness of her long childhood exile in the hospital with tuberculosis, her father's abandonment of the family, and her mother's early death. The authors also paint a rich portrait of her adult life, spent almost entirely in a genteel North London suburb and shared with a beloved aunt. Although Stevie gained international recognition with the publication of Novel on Yellow Paper in 1936, she continued to work for more than 30 years as a secretary in a publishing house. In the 1960s, she enjoyed a new wave of recognition as a performer, broadcaster, and literary reviewer, receiving in 1969 the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry. Replete with anecdotes from Stevie's friends and excerpts from her work, this biography offers new insights into the charm and paradox of a unique poet as well as into her writings and the world in which she moved.
Author : Stevie Smith
Publisher : Virago
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780349005843
It is 1936. Pompey Casmilus (the heroine of Smith's debut, Novel on Yellow Paper) lives in London with her beloved Aunt, bothered by the menace of German militarism, bothered too by the humbug which confronts it, bothered most of all by her hopeless love affair with Freddy. Its ending plunges Pompey into melancholy; six months of rest and recuperation are prescribed and Pompey goes to Schloss Tilssen on the northern German border, only to fall in with a strange band of conspirators: the plum-coloured Mrs Pouncer, the absent-minded Colonel Peck and the dashing Major Tom Satterthwaite, whom Pompey comes to love. How Pompey gets into uniform and becomes a spy is only one of the astounding events in this extraordinary novel which, on a serious level, is also about a powerful investigation of power and cruelty in a world preparing for war.
Author : Stevie Smith
Publisher : Virago Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0860681467
Stevie's alter ego Pompey is young, in love and working as a secretary for the magnificent Sir Phoebus Ullwater, Bt. In between making coffee and typing letters for Sir Phoebus, Pompey scribbles down - on yellow office paper - her quirky thoughts. Her flights of imagination take in Euripedes, sex education, Nazi Germany and the Catholic Church in England, shattering conventions in their wake.
Author : Stevie Smith
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 847 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-15
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780811223812
The essential edition of one of modern poetry’s most distinctive voices: all Stevie Smith’s flabbergasting poems, now in paperback Stevie Smith is among the most popular British poets of the twentieth century. Her poem “Not Waving but Drowning” has been widely anthologized, and her life was celebrated in the classic movie Stevie. This new and updated edition includes hundreds of works from her thirty-five-year career. In addition to the poems and illustrations from all her published volumes, the Smith scholar Will May discovered never-before-published verses and provides fascinating details about their provenance. Satirical, mischievous, teasing, disarming, Stevie Smith’s poems take readers from comedy to tragedy and back again, while her line drawings are by turns unsettling and beguiling.
Author : Stevie Smith
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 819 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-15
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780571311323
When Stevie Smith died in 1971 she was one of the twentieth-century's most popular poets; many of her poems have been widely anthologised, and 'Not Waving but Drowning' remains one of the nation's favourite poems to this day. Satirical, mischievous, teasing, disarming, her characteristically lightning-fast changes in tone take readers from comedy to tragedy and back again, while her line drawings are by turns unsettling and beguiling. In this wholly new edition of her work, Smith scholar Will May collects together the illustrations and poems from her original published volumes for the first time, recording fascinating details about their provenance, and describing the various versions Smith presented both on stage and page. Including over 500 works from Smith's 35-year career, The Collected Poems and Drawings of Stevie Smith is the essential edition of modern poetry's most distinctive voice. I was much further out than you thought And not waving but drowning. - 'Not Waving but Drowning'
Author : Stevie Smith
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Art
ISBN : 081121110X
The British poet Stevie Smith, as her many readers well know, sprinkled her drawings throughout her poetry collections. In this sketchbook, Some Are More Human Than Others, she did the opposite--she spiced her drawings with words. Together they resound with what Robert Lowell described as Smith's "unique and cheerfully gruesome voice" and open up a little world of peculiar experience: something somber and something gay, innocent and cruel--truths of our world trapped off guard.
Author : Stevie Smith
Publisher : Virago
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780349005836
Celia works at the Ministry in the post-war England of 1949 and lives in a London suburb. Witty, fragile, quixotic, Celia is preoccupied with love - for her friends, her colleagues, her relations, and especially for her adored cousin Casmilus, with whom she goes on holiday to visit Uncle Heber, the vicar. Here they talk endlessly, argue, eat, tell stories, love and hate - moments of wild humour alternating with waves of melancholy as Celia ponders obsessively on the inevitable pain of love. In everything she wrote, Stevie Smith captured the paradox of pain in all human affections - nowhere more so than in this wry, strongly autobiographical tale.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Poets, English
ISBN : OCLC:641894876
Author : Stevie Smith,Chris Saunders
Publisher : Greville Press
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Poetry
ISBN : UOM:39015056479226
Author : Stevie Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1950
Category : English poetry
ISBN : UOM:39015002149105
Author : Stevie Smith
Publisher : Virago Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0860682277
Stevie Smith (1902-1971) is most famous as a poet and for her three extraordinary novels. But, throughout her life, stories, essays, reviews, a radio play, poems and drawings poured from her witty and magnificent pen and this volume is this first to collect them. She had a unique eye for what is wonderful in the ordinary, and her perceptions about friendship, love and the complexities of life have rarely been equalled. Dominating these writings is her unforgettable humour and wit, quintessentially English yet absolutely universal. ME AGAIN illuminates and confirms the splendid and varied qualities which constitute the genius of Stevie Smith.