Vita Sackville-West: Selected Writings
Autor Vita Sackville-West Nigel Nicolson Editat de Mary Ann Cawsen Limba Engleză Hardback – 31 mai 2002
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-10: 031223760X
Pagini: 370
Ilustrații: Plus one 16-page b&w photo insert
Dimensiuni: 164 x 241 x 32 mm
Greutate: 0.72 kg
Editura: Palgrave MacMillan
Locul publicării:Basingstoke, United Kingdom
Cuprins
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
'...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
Caracteristici
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