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Changing Shape: Collected Poems
Edward Lucie-Smith
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Description for Changing Shape: Collected Poems
paperback. This collection is comprised mainly of new works, previously unpublished by Edward Lucie-Smith, as well as his most-anthologized poem, "The Lesson". Num Pages: 124 pages. BIC Classification: DC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 139 x 9. Weight in Grams: 172.
The poetry of Edward Lucie-Smith begins in "A Tropical Childhood" (1961), a rich landscape overlaid with different kinds of emotional and spiritual hunger. The poet became central to the Group, leading its sessions and experimenting with forms, in particular the dramatic monologues in "Confessions and Histories" (1964). With "Towards Silence" (1968) his poetry sought a new direction. Weary of "conventional verse forms", tired of the sobriquet "poet", he began experiments with poster poems, concrete verse, poetry solely for recitation. His last major collection, "The Well Wishers", appeared in 1974. Since then his poems have appeared in limited editions if at ... Read more
The poetry of Edward Lucie-Smith begins in "A Tropical Childhood" (1961), a rich landscape overlaid with different kinds of emotional and spiritual hunger. The poet became central to the Group, leading its sessions and experimenting with forms, in particular the dramatic monologues in "Confessions and Histories" (1964). With "Towards Silence" (1968) his poetry sought a new direction. Weary of "conventional verse forms", tired of the sobriquet "poet", he began experiments with poster poems, concrete verse, poetry solely for recitation. His last major collection, "The Well Wishers", appeared in 1974. Since then his poems have appeared in limited editions if at ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd. United Kingdom
Number of pages
124
Condition
New
Number of Pages
124
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781857545494
SKU
V9781857545494
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About Edward Lucie-Smith
Edward Lucie Smith was born in 1933 in Kingston, Jamaica. He was educated at King's School, Canterbury and Merton College, Oxford, where he read History. After service as an Education Officer in the R.A.F., he worked in advertising for ten years before becoming a freelance author. He is a prolific and widely published writer on art. Several of his books, ... Read more
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