Author: William May
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199583374
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
`The most useful critical guide to the Movement that has appeared in recent years' Alan Brownjohn, Literary Review --
Stevie Smith and Authorship
Author: William May
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199583374
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
`The most useful critical guide to the Movement that has appeared in recent years' Alan Brownjohn, Literary Review --
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199583374
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
`The most useful critical guide to the Movement that has appeared in recent years' Alan Brownjohn, Literary Review --
The Mechanics of Authorship
All the Poems: Stevie Smith
Author: Stevie Smith
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 0811223817
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 847
Book Description
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.
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 0811223817
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 847
Book Description
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.
Stevie Smith, a Selection
Author: Stevie Smith
Publisher: London : Faber and Faber
ISBN: 9780571130290
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Presents a representative sampling of the poetry, fiction, and drawings by the distinctive English author
Publisher: London : Faber and Faber
ISBN: 9780571130290
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Presents a representative sampling of the poetry, fiction, and drawings by the distinctive English author
The Collected Poems of Stevie Smith
The Poetry of Stevie Smith, "little Girl Lost"
Author: Arthur C. Rankin
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Stevie Smith was a visionary poet with a unique sense of humor. Her work is now more popular than ever, both in English and in translation, and she has a special appeal to young readers. In this study, the author separates the various strands of her philosophy and discusses aspects of her thought and particular poems often unfamiliar to the average reader.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Stevie Smith was a visionary poet with a unique sense of humor. Her work is now more popular than ever, both in English and in translation, and she has a special appeal to young readers. In this study, the author separates the various strands of her philosophy and discusses aspects of her thought and particular poems often unfamiliar to the average reader.
Stevie Smith: a Selection
Author: Stevie Smith
Publisher: Faber & Faber Poetry
ISBN: 9780571347704
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Designed especially for students but also for the general reader, this selection draws on the whole of Smith's output in poetry, prose, and drawings from Novel on Yellow Paper (1936) to Scorpion (1972), complemented by biographical and textual notes.
Publisher: Faber & Faber Poetry
ISBN: 9780571347704
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Designed especially for students but also for the general reader, this selection draws on the whole of Smith's output in poetry, prose, and drawings from Novel on Yellow Paper (1936) to Scorpion (1972), complemented by biographical and textual notes.
Stevie Smith and the Aphorism
Author: Noreen Masud
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192895893
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
This volume argues that aphorism represents a tool for the social management of emotion. Rhetorically corralled into a slick, collectable shape, the aphorism promises arresting and instantaneous epiphany. However, the accomplished elegance which positions the aphorism's message as self-evidently true in fact works to repel further enquiry, and ultimately ensures that it will be forgotten or bypassed in favour of another aphorism: no less eagerly embraced for the earlier disappointment. Aphorism, therefore, is a form in which dangerous ideas and emotions can be safely displayed and, simultaneously, effaced. Because aphorism's style defuses the imperative to act on what is clearly known, writers like Stevie Smith can use the form to stage a withdrawal from the burden of making an impact on the world. This book finds that Smith's use of aphorism and its related forms (proverb, epitaph, caption, and fragment) offers a route into her texts. With her disconcerting pen-and-ink drawings, dark comedy, and social ventriloquism which stops short of satire, the rhetorical force of Smith's poetry fascinates and arrests its readers, but nevertheless leaves them unable to react coherently or identify the use-value which her writing appears to promise. Drawing on hitherto unpublished archival material, this project argues that Smith's texts resist analysis because, like the aphorisms embedded throughout them, they offer and exemplify a mode of clearly-declared revelation which, at the same time, makes itself unusable.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192895893
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
This volume argues that aphorism represents a tool for the social management of emotion. Rhetorically corralled into a slick, collectable shape, the aphorism promises arresting and instantaneous epiphany. However, the accomplished elegance which positions the aphorism's message as self-evidently true in fact works to repel further enquiry, and ultimately ensures that it will be forgotten or bypassed in favour of another aphorism: no less eagerly embraced for the earlier disappointment. Aphorism, therefore, is a form in which dangerous ideas and emotions can be safely displayed and, simultaneously, effaced. Because aphorism's style defuses the imperative to act on what is clearly known, writers like Stevie Smith can use the form to stage a withdrawal from the burden of making an impact on the world. This book finds that Smith's use of aphorism and its related forms (proverb, epitaph, caption, and fragment) offers a route into her texts. With her disconcerting pen-and-ink drawings, dark comedy, and social ventriloquism which stops short of satire, the rhetorical force of Smith's poetry fascinates and arrests its readers, but nevertheless leaves them unable to react coherently or identify the use-value which her writing appears to promise. Drawing on hitherto unpublished archival material, this project argues that Smith's texts resist analysis because, like the aphorisms embedded throughout them, they offer and exemplify a mode of clearly-declared revelation which, at the same time, makes itself unusable.
New Selected Poems of Stevie Smith
Author: Stevie Smith
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
ISBN: 9780811210676
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Replacing the slim volume which introduced Stevie Smith to American readers, New Selected Poems is chronologically arranged and contains 165 poems along with many of the author's doodles.
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
ISBN: 9780811210676
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Replacing the slim volume which introduced Stevie Smith to American readers, New Selected Poems is chronologically arranged and contains 165 poems along with many of the author's doodles.
Collected Poems and Drawings of Stevie Smith
Author: Stevie Smith
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780571311316
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Collected Poems and Drawings of Stevie Smith is the essential edition of modern poetry's most distinctive voice.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780571311316
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Collected Poems and Drawings of Stevie Smith is the essential edition of modern poetry's most distinctive voice.