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Description for Peter Levi
Hardcover. Biography of Oxford Classics don who led intriguing life. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKESF; BGL; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 149 x 223 x 37. Weight in Grams: 800.
Peter Levi (1931-2000) was one of the most romantic and complicated of twentieth-century Oxford characters. Although descended on his father's side from Jewish carpet-merchants in Constantinople, he was brought up a Catholic and was a Jesuit from late adolescence until he left to marry at the age of 45. Part-way through his training for the priesthood, Levi joined the small Jesuit intellectual elite as an undergraduate at Campion Hall, Oxford. Already a compulsive poet, he made literary friends and experimented with hard, bright lyrics on a variety of themes. His first collection, From the Gravel Ponds, was Poetry Book Society ... Read more
Peter Levi (1931-2000) was one of the most romantic and complicated of twentieth-century Oxford characters. Although descended on his father's side from Jewish carpet-merchants in Constantinople, he was brought up a Catholic and was a Jesuit from late adolescence until he left to marry at the age of 45. Part-way through his training for the priesthood, Levi joined the small Jesuit intellectual elite as an undergraduate at Campion Hall, Oxford. Already a compulsive poet, he made literary friends and experimented with hard, bright lyrics on a variety of themes. His first collection, From the Gravel Ponds, was Poetry Book Society ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Signal Books Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781908493989
SKU
V9781908493989
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Ref
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About Brigid Allen
BRIGID ALLEN read History at Oxford in the 1960s and returned to live there in the 1980s, working with archives and manuscripts and as a lexicographical researcher and writer.
Reviews for Peter Levi
'You could not overpraise this book. It is so punctiliously researched, and so well written. It describes a loveable, fascinating character whose life was consecrated to art; and the consecration took fascinating twists and turns. Brigid Allen has unearthed the details with prodigious skill.'
Spectator 'In my opinion Peter Levi represents one of the significant reactions to ... Read more
Spectator 'In my opinion Peter Levi represents one of the significant reactions to ... Read more