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Vita Sackville-West: Selected Writings

Nigel Nicolson Editat de Mary Ann Caws
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 oct 2003

Aristocrat, novelist, essayist, traveler, and lover of Virginia Woolf, Vita Sackville-West lived a fascinating and daring life on the periphery of the Bloomsbury circle. She wrote in an astounding variety of genres, including travel narrative, historical and literary studies, poetry, fiction, and essays, and is probably best known or her novels, The Edwardians and All Passion Spent, and incomparable writings about English country houses and gardens. Here, for the first time, is an anthology that represents the full expanse of her interests and styles. Over half of the works, including intimate diaries and a dream notebook, have never been published. Edited by a foremost expert on the Bloomsbury circle, "Vita Sackville-West: Selected Writings" provides the best and most accessible introduction to this unique writer.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781403963185
ISBN-10: 1403963185
Pagini: 370
Ilustrații: 16-page b/w photo insert
Dimensiuni: 150 x 226 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.55 kg
Ediția:Reprint
Editura: PALGRAVE TRADE
Locul publicării:Basingstoke, United Kingdom

Cuprins

Foreword
Preface by Nigel Nicolson
Introduction
Some Diary Selections
Early Writings
Knole and the Sackvilles (1922)
Letters
Long passage(s) from Challenge (1923) and reference to its Other Titles (Enchantment, Froth, Foam, Rebellion, Rebels, Vanity: A Study)
Seducers in Ecuador (1924)
Reference to 'The Land' (1926) and Passage from 'Autumn,' in The Garden
Selections from Passenger to Teheran (1926)
Selections from Poems, 'The Persian Flute,' 'A Persian Legend,' 'A Bowl of Blue Beads' (1928) and Other Poems
Journal of Travel with Virginia Woolf to France
Poems from East and West: On Travel
Selections from Twelve Days in the Bakhtiari Mountains
Poems on Les Baux
Reference to Aphra Benn (1927) 'The Incomparable Astrea'
'Some Tendencies of Modern English Poetry': Lecture (1927)
A Chapter from Andrew Marvell (1929)
Reference to The Edwardians (1930) 'England is Always Very Much The Same'
Reference to All Passion Spent (1931)
'Thirty Clocks Strike the Hour,' Memoir so Titled, `1932:'I Remember Being Taken to Visit my Grandmother...'
Reference to Family History (1932) Dresses, Descriptions; English Architecture (and 'How much I like French Architecture')
Reference to The Dark Island (1934) Description of Water, Port Breton, the Island of Storn, Feeling of Doom
Travel Diary in the United States
Reference to Saint. Joan of Arc (1936) and from Eagle and Dove: 'Some Mysterious Central Originating Force'
Selections from Country Notes in Wartime (1940)
'In Memoriam Virginia Woolf': Poem (1941)
'The Poetry Reading': Story, about Vita's own Appearance (1944)
'The Engagement' Story
Selection of Garden Articles from The Joy of Gardening (1951, 1953, 1955, 1958) and others
Reference to The Easter Party (1953)
Reference to Daughter of France (1959)
Reference to No Signposts in the Sea (1961)
Poem: 'Sea Sonnet'
Selections from Faces (1961)
Poems Unpublished, or Not in Collections
'The Intellectual to his Puppy, and the Puppy to his New Owner'
'En Bateau'
'Winter Afternoon'

Recenzii

'This lightly annotated volume of selected writings...is intended to acquaint the contemporary reader with the range of Sackville-West's literary talents.' - Publishers Weekly

'...a complex and compelling portrait of Sackville-West emerges...' - J.E. Steiner, Choice

'Caws sees the interesting contradictions in Vita's life and writing - at once nonconformist and traditional, 'adventuresome' and reclusive, sexually faithless and maritally loyal, unconventional and immensley snobbish.' - Hermione Lee, The Guardian

Notă biografică

MARY ANN CAWS is a literary translator and one of the most important critics of the Bloomsbury circle, modernism, and surrealism. She is Distinguished Professor of English, French, and Comparative Literature and Co-Director of the Henri Peyre French Institute, Graduate School, CUNY. She is a former president of the Modern Language Association. Her many books include Picasso's Weeping Woman: The Life and Art of Dora Maar, Bloomsbury and France: Art and Friends (with Sarah Bird Wright), and Manifesto: A Century of Isms.

Caracteristici

1 Over half of the texts have never been previously published
2 Brings together examples of all of Vita's many genres - poetry, essays, travel writing, letters, diaries, short stories, novels
3 Edited by a noted critic of modernism and the Bloomsbury circle
4 Includes a foreword by Nigel Nicolson, Vita Sackville-West's son

Descriere

This book provides the most wide-ranging collection of the writing of noted Bloomsbury figure Vita Sackville-West in print. One of the most well-known lesbian authors of the Twentieth-century, Sackville-West was a central figure among the Bloomsbury modernists, and had a torrid love affair with Virginia Woolf. She wrote in an astounding variety of genres, including travel writing, poetry, fiction, and essays, and is probably best known for her novels, The Edwardians and All Passion Spent, and aristocratic writings about English country gardens. This book collects a wide variety of her works, over half of which, including her travel notebooks, her diaries, some short stories, and her intimate dream notebook, have never been published. With renewed interest in the modernist period and in the work of queer authors, this is an excellent time for a selected volume of Sackville-West's writings.