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Constance Markievicz (1868-1927), born to the privileged Protestant
upper class in Ireland, embraced suffrage before scandalously
leaving for a bohemian life in London and then Paris. She would
become known for her roles as politician and Irish revolutionary
nationalist. Her husband, Casimir Dunin Markievicz (1874-1932), a
painter, playwright, and theater director, was a Polish noble who
would eventually join the Russian imperial army to fight on behalf
of Polish freedom during World War I. Revolutionary Lives offers
the first dual biography of these two prominent European activists
and artists. Tracing the Markieviczes' entwined and impassioned
trajectories, biographer Lauren Arrington sheds light on the
avant-garde cultures of London, Paris, and Dublin, and the rise of
anti-imperialism at the turn of the twentieth century. Drawing from
new archival material, including previously untranslated newspaper
articles, Arrington explores the interests and concerns of
Europeans invested in suffrage, socialism, and nationhood. Unlike
previous works, Arrington's book brings Casimir Markievicz into the
foreground of the story and explains how his liberal imperialism
and his wife's socialist republicanism arose from shared
experiences, even as their politics remained distinct. Arrington
also shows how Constance did not convert suddenly to Irish
nationalism, but was gradually radicalized by the Irish Revival.
Correcting previous depictions of Constance as hero or hysteric,
Arrington presents her as a serious thinker influenced by political
and cultural contemporaries. Revolutionary Lives places the
exciting biographies of two uniquely creative and political
individuals and spouses in the wider context of early
twentieth-century European history.
Constance Markievicz (1868-1927), born to the privileged Protestant
upper class in Ireland, embraced suffrage before scandalously
leaving for a bohemian life in London and then Paris. She would
become known for her roles as politician and Irish revolutionary
nationalist. Her husband, Casimir Dunin Markievicz (1874-1932), a
painter, playwright, and theater director, was a Polish noble who
would eventually join the Russian imperial army to fight on behalf
of Polish freedom during World War I. Revolutionary Lives offers
the first dual biography of these two prominent European activists
and artists. Tracing the Markieviczes' entwined and impassioned
trajectories, biographer Lauren Arrington sheds light on the
avant-garde cultures of London, Paris, and Dublin, and the rise of
anti-imperialism at the turn of the twentieth century. Drawing from
new archival material, including previously untranslated newspaper
articles, Arrington explores the interests and concerns of
Europeans invested in suffrage, socialism, and nationhood. Unlike
previous works, Arrington's book brings Casimir Markievicz into the
foreground of the story and explains how his liberal imperialism
and his wife's socialist republicanism arose from shared
experiences, even as their politics remained distinct. Arrington
also shows how Constance did not convert suddenly to Irish
nationalism, but was gradually radicalized by the Irish Revival.
Correcting previous depictions of Constance as hero or hysteric,
Arrington presents her as a serious thinker influenced by political
and cultural contemporaries. Revolutionary Lives places the
exciting biographies of two uniquely creative and political
individuals and spouses in the wider context of early
twentieth-century European history.
A new story about the relationships between major twentieth-century
English-language poets. Why did poets from the United States,
Britain, and Ireland gather in a small town in Italy during the
early years of Mussolini's regime? These writers were-or
became-some of the most famous poets of the twentieth century. What
brought them together, and what did they hope to achieve? The Poets
of Rapallo is about the conversations, collaborations, and
disagreements among Ezra and Dorothy Pound, W.B. and George Yeats,
Richard Aldington and Brigit Patmore, Thomas MacGreevy, Louis
Zukofsky, and Basil Bunting. Drawing on their correspondence,
diaries, drafts of poems, sketches, and photographs, this book
shows how the backdrop of the Italian fascist regime is essential
to their writing about their home countries and their ideas about
modern art and poetry. It also explores their interconnectedness as
poets and shows how these connections were erased as their work was
polished for publication. Focusing on the years between 1928 and
1935, when Pound and Yeats hosted an array of visiting writers,
this book shows how the literary culture of Rapallo forged the
lifelong friendships of Richard Aldington and Thomas MacGreevy-both
veterans of the First World War-and of Louis Zukofsky and Basil
Bunting, who imagined a new kind of "democratic" poetry for the
twentieth century. In the wake of the Second World War, these four
poets all downplayed their relationship to Ezra Pound and avoided
discussing how important Rapallo was to their development as poets.
But how did these "democratic" poets respond to the fascist context
in which they worked during their time in Rapallo? The Poets of
Rapallo discusses their collaboration with Pound, their awareness
of the rising tide of fascism, and even-in some cases-their
complicity in the activities of the fascist regime. The Poets of
Rapallo charts the new direction for modernist writing that these
writers imagined, and in the process, it exposes the dark
underbelly of some of the most lauded poetry in the English
language.
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Beauty (Paperback, New)
Lauren Arrington, Zoe Leinhardt, Philip Dawid
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Beauty challenges conventional approaches to the subject through an
interdisciplinary approach that forges connections between the
arts, sciences and mathematics. Classical, conventional aspects of
beauty are addressed in subtle, unexpected ways: symmetry in
mathematics, attraction in the animal world and beauty in the
cosmos. This collection arises from the Darwin College Lecture
Series of 2011 and includes essays from eight distinguished
scholars, all of whom are held in esteem not only for their
research but also for their ability to communicate their subject to
popular audiences. Each essay is entertaining, accessible and
thought-provoking and is accompanied by images illustrating beauty
in practice. Contributors include the artist Jose Hernandez, Nobel
Prize Laureate Frank Wilczek, Lord May of Oxford and Jeanne Altmann
(Eugene Higgins Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at
Princeton University).
The Irish, Symbolist poet W.B. Yeats (1865-1939) is considered one
of the foremost English-language literary figures of the twentieth
century. Whether the lyrical and embroidered poems of his youth or
the sparser, simplified work of his later years, his verse was
spiritual, mystical, personal and universal. This covetable
collection, with exquisite cover design, contains some of Yeats'
most treasured verse, from 'The Lake Isle of Innisfree' to 'Sailing
to Byzantium'.
The forty-two chapters in this book consider Yeats's early toil,
his practical and esoteric concerns as his career developed, his
friends and enemies, and how he was and is understood. This
Handbook brings together critics and writers who have considered
what Yeats wrote and how he wrote, moving between texts and their
contexts in ways that will lead the reader through Yeats's multiple
selves as poet, playwright, public figure, and mystic. It assembles
a variety of views and adds to a sense of dialogue, the antinomian
or deliberately-divided way of thinking that Yeats relished and
encouraged. This volume puts that sense of a living dialogue in
tune both with the history of criticism on Yeats and also with
contemporary critical and ethical debates, not shirking the
complexities of Yeats's more uncomfortable political positions or
personal life. It provides one basis from which future Yeats
scholarship can continue to participate in the fascination of all
the contributors here in the satisfying difficulty of this great
writer.
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