Hope Mirrlees: Collected Poems
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| Rating | : | 4.77 (858 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1847770754 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 180 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-08-14 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Groundbreaking and illuminating, this volume is a testament to Mirrlees’s contribution to 20th-century poetry.. Spanning several decades of her life, multiple continents, and significant events, this collection of Hope Mirrlees’s poetry includes previously unpublished work and the modernist writer’s later poems and essays, written circa 1920. Also included is the full text of Paris: A Poema daylong, psycho-geographical flânerie through the streets and metro tunnels of postWorld War I Paris
"An Absolute Necessity for Mirrlees Scholars and Readers" according to TheCellarDoor. The world of modernist studies has long awaited a definitive publication of Hope Mirrlees' life and work. Finally, we have it! As one modernist scholar to another, thank you Sandeep Parmar. My own research on Mirrlees would be severely lacking without the help of this book.The collection is actually much more than Mirrlees' poems, which may not be clear from the title: it includes all of
She is the author of numerous books, including The Counterplot, Lud-in-the-Mist, Madeleine: One of Love’s Jansenists, and Paris: A Poem. Sandeep Parmar is a visiting scholar at New York University, where she also teaches, as well as a former English literature and creative writ
'Sandeep Parmar's edition of Hope Mirrlees' poetry is a testimony to modern scholarship and provides a missing piece of the British modernist jigsaw.' --Matthew Mitton, Women: A Cultural Review