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The Night of Akhenaton: Selected Poems
Agnes Nemes Nagy
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Description for The Night of Akhenaton: Selected Poems
Paperback. Contains poems from all periods of Nemes Nagy's output, from her work in the early 1940's to work written immediatly prior to her death, and includes poems from her important Akhenaton cycle. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 139 x 216 x 6. Weight in Grams: 150.
Hungary’s Ágnes Nemes Nagy (1922-91) is one of Europe’s major modern poets. Her poems are clear and packed at once, monumental yet crystalline in their thought and organisation. The vast pressures of her nation’s troubled history find their equivalent in human feeling, voiced through the extraordinary compressed power and explosive formality of Nemes Nagy’s poetry. Her subjects include nature, myth and the vastnesses of geological time, but her manner is epic, tragic and epigrammatic. Co-editor of New Moon, the most important literary magazine in Hungary after the War, her own work was banned and the magazine closed in the ... Read more
Hungary’s Ágnes Nemes Nagy (1922-91) is one of Europe’s major modern poets. Her poems are clear and packed at once, monumental yet crystalline in their thought and organisation. The vast pressures of her nation’s troubled history find their equivalent in human feeling, voiced through the extraordinary compressed power and explosive formality of Nemes Nagy’s poetry. Her subjects include nature, myth and the vastnesses of geological time, but her manner is epic, tragic and epigrammatic. Co-editor of New Moon, the most important literary magazine in Hungary after the War, her own work was banned and the magazine closed in the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Number of pages
112
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
Weight
149g
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781852246419
SKU
V9781852246419
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About Agnes Nemes Nagy
Agnes Nemes Nagy (1922-91) is one of Europe's major modern poets. Co-editor of New Moon, the most important literary magazine in Hungary after the War, her own work was banned and the magazine closed in the 1950s, but both have had a lasting effect on later generations.
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