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Stonypath Days (Hardcover)
Stephen Bann, Ian Hamilton Finlay
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A companion to Midway, this is the second volume of letters of Ian
Hamilton Finlay (1925-2006), the leading Scottish poet, artist,
sculptor, and garden designer. His garden at Stonypath, now called
Little Sparta has been described as the only truly original garden
created since 1945. These letters to and from Finlay's friend, the
English poet and scholar Stephen Bann, center on the initial
development of the garden near Edinburgh. They cover Finlay's turn
away from poetry towards sculpture and garden design and the
thinking behind, and consequences of, this development.
"This volume surveys the life and work of the Scottish poet Ian
Hamilton Finlay, who is best known for his extraordinary garden,
Little Sparta, a unique "poem of place" in which poetry, sculpture,
and horticulture intersect. This book directs sustained attention
to Finlay the verbal artist, revealing the full breadth and
richness of his poetics. It illuminates the evolution from his
early years of composing plays, stories, and lyrical poems to his
discovery of Concrete poetry and his emergence as a key figure in
the international avant-garde of the 1960s"--
"This volume surveys the life and work of the Scottish poet Ian
Hamilton Finlay, who is best known for his extraordinary garden,
Little Sparta, a unique "poem of place" in which poetry, sculpture,
and horticulture intersect. This book directs sustained attention
to Finlay the verbal artist, revealing the full breadth and
richness of his poetics. It illuminates the evolution from his
early years of composing plays, stories, and lyrical poems to his
discovery of Concrete poetry and his emergence as a key figure in
the international avant-garde of the 1960s"--
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