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Collected Poems: Hope Mirrlees
Hope Mirrlees
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Description for Collected Poems: Hope Mirrlees
Paperback. This book brings a brilliant modernist back into the poetic limelight. Editor(s): Parmar, Sandeep. Num Pages: 180 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 138 x 16. Weight in Grams: 258. 180 pages. Editor(s): Parmar, Sandeep. This book brings a brilliant modernist back into the poetic limelight. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: DCF. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 16. Weight: 258.
In Paris & Other Poems Hope Mirrlees's remarkable long poem Paris, originally published by the Hogarth Press is 1920, is published alongside later poetry, prose essays and previously unpublished work. Paris is now recognised as a 'lost modernist masterpiece', a daylong, psycho-geographical flanerie through the streets and metro tunnels of post-World War I Paris. Virginia Woolf called Paris 'obscure, indecent, and brilliant', and it has been suggested that Mirrlees experimentation with language and form had an impact on T.S. Eliot's composition of The Waste Land. Half a century later she started to publish poetry once more, work strikingly different from ... Read more
In Paris & Other Poems Hope Mirrlees's remarkable long poem Paris, originally published by the Hogarth Press is 1920, is published alongside later poetry, prose essays and previously unpublished work. Paris is now recognised as a 'lost modernist masterpiece', a daylong, psycho-geographical flanerie through the streets and metro tunnels of post-World War I Paris. Virginia Woolf called Paris 'obscure, indecent, and brilliant', and it has been suggested that Mirrlees experimentation with language and form had an impact on T.S. Eliot's composition of The Waste Land. Half a century later she started to publish poetry once more, work strikingly different from ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd
Number of pages
180
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2023
Condition
New
Weight
257 g
Number of Pages
180
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781847770752
SKU
V9781847770752
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About Hope Mirrlees
Hope Mirrlees (1887-1978) was born in Kent and grew up in Scotland and South Africa. She studied at Newnham College, Cambridge, and in 1922 moved to Paris. Her first novel was published in 1919, followed by her long poem, Paris (Hogarth Press, 1920). Her other two novels are The Counterplot (1924) and the fantasy novel Lud-in-the-Mist (1926). Mirrlees converted to ... Read more
Reviews for Collected Poems: Hope Mirrlees
'Sandeep Parmar's edition of Hope Mirrlees' poetry is a testimony to modern scholarship and provides a missing piece of the British modernist jigsaw.'
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