Changing Shape: New and Selected Poems - Softcover

Lucie-Smith, Edward

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1857545494 ISBN 13: 9781857545494

Verlag: Carcanet Press Ltd, 2002

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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 all. This "Selected" is a return from disaffection, a careful sorting out of the valid from the invalid work in his "oeuvre", and it contains a number of terse, penetrating poems of human and social comment composed in recent years. He remains a poet of the erotic and the aesthetic - it is hard to separate the terms in his work - and an historical and religious sensibility is at work.

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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, including Movements in Art since 1945, Visual Arts of the Twentieth Century, A Dictionary of Art Terms and Art Today are used as standard texts throughout the world. He is a poet and anthologist, and a photographer whose work is represented in the National Portrait Gallery in London

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Carcanet Press Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1857545494
• ISBN 13: 9781857545494
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 124
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