Seven Poems.

BARKER, George.

Verlag: The Greville Press., 1977

Beschreibung

One of a limited edition of 250 numbered copies, this being copy number178, signed by the author. Barker left school at an early age he pursued several odd jobs before settling on a career in writing. Early volumes of note include Thirty Preliminary Poems (1933), Poems (1935) and Calamiterror (1937), which was inspired by the Spanish Civil War and contains an attack on the Spanish Nationalists. In his early twenties, Barker had already been published by T. S. Eliot at Faber and Faber. In the40s he travelled to the United States where he began his longtime liaison with writer Elizabeth Smart, by whom he had four of his fifteen children. Barker's 1950 novel, The Dead Seagull, described his affair with Smart, whose 1945 novel By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept was also about the affair. Barker was partly associated with the New Apocalyptics movement which reacted against 1930s realism with surrealistic and mythical themes, but his characteristically independent idiosyncrasies set him off as an individual in his own right. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 000087

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Seven Poems.

Verlag: The Greville Press.

Erscheinungsdatum: 1977

Einband: Hardcover

Illustrator: Illustrated with Drawings By Richard Williams.

Zustand: Fine

Signiert: Signed by Author(s)

Auflage: 1st Edition