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As a poet and critic of art and literature, and as a social and
political philosopher, Sir Herbert Read exerted an important
influence on the culture of his time. Not only did he assist and
inspire many writers and artists, but through his work for the idea
of 'education through art', he greatly influenced education, in
particular the teaching of art and literature in schools. For this
symposium, first issued in 1969 as the ninth number of The Malahat
Review, Professor Skelton has gathered together original essays,
poems and drawings which illustrate many aspects of Sir Herbert
Read's life and work.
As a poet and critic of art and literature, and as a social and
political philosopher, Sir Herbert Read exerted an important
influence on the culture of his time. Not only did he assist and
inspire many writers and artists, but through his work for the idea
of 'education through art', he greatly influenced education, in
particular the teaching of art and literature in schools. For this
symposium, first issued in 1969 as the ninth number of The Malahat
Review, Professor Skelton has gathered together original essays,
poems and drawings which illustrate many aspects of Sir Herbert
Read's life and work.
This is a rich harvest from a renowned translator, an elegant
survivor. In 1996, in his eightieth year, David Gascoyne was
awarded the Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et Lettres in
recognition of his profound contribution to French literature and
art. This collection includes some of his best work - early
translations, recent unpublished translations, and a substantial
section of translations printed in journals over the past
twenty-five years.Translations by David Gascoyne of: Guillaume
Apollinaire, Andre Breton, Blaise Cendrars, Rene Char, Xie Chuang,
Rene Daumal, Yves de Bayser, Robert Desnos, Andre du Bouchet, Paul
Eluard, Pierre Emmanuel, Jean Follain, Benjamin Fondane, Andre
Frenaud, Eugene Guillevic, Maurice Henry, Friedrich Holderlin,
Georges Hugent, Edmond Jabes, Max Jacob, Pierre Jean Jouve, Valery
Larbaud, Giacomo Leopardi, Stephane Mallarme, Loys Masson, O. V. de
L. Milosz, Benjamin Peret, Francis Ponge, Gisele Prassinos, Raymond
Queneau, Pierre Reverdy, Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, Arthur
Rimbaud, Gui Rosey, Philippe Soupault, Jules Supervielle, Jean
Tardieu, Georg Trakl and Tristan Tzara.
For a number of years Robin Skelton has been a major interpreter
and definer of what we now mean by Anglo-Irish literature. This
collection represents his own selection of fourteen of his best
essays. All have been revised, several enlarged, and two are
published here for the first time. Two major themes emerge from
this collection: verse craftsmanship, with the language and
structure of poetry; and a concern with the way that a writer can
contrive to bring contraries (personal, national, aesthetic, etc.)
together, fusing all the writer's themes and techniques into unity,
so as to present a coherent, all-embracing "philosophy" or
attitude. Most of the essays move from quite specific discussions
of texts to broader generalizations about style and content in
Irish writing. As always, Skelton is an extraordinarily alert and
careful reader, and some of these essays contain valuable close
readings of specific poems. In addition, he has the ability to draw
the significant particulars into meaningful accounts of the
totality of an artist's achievement. Time after time, Skelton
simply makes one see new things, even in the most familiar texts,
and his essays offer valuable insights both for the scholar and for
the general reader of Irish literature.
Auden, Day, Lewis, Spender, MacNeice and the other key poets of the Thirties were children of the First World War, obsessed by war and by communalism, by the class-struggle and a passionate belief in poets as people whose actions are as publically important as their poems. For them, the Spanish Civil War epitomized the mood of the times, as their symbolic obsessions were transmuted into tragic reality. But from within their strongly defined unity of ideals, an astonishingly varied body of poetry emerged. Robin Skelton has arranged the poetry to make an illuminating ‘critical essay’ of the period, and in his introduction he brilliantly probes the moods and mores of an intensely troubled and creative decade.
J.M.Synge died in 1909 and The Works of John M. Synge were
published in four volumes by Maunsel & Co., Dublin, in 1910.
Since that time, with the exception of a few minor verses and one
or two fragments of prose, the canon of his work has remained
unaltered. Nevertheless, much unpublished material exists, for the
most part of great interest and significance for the understanding
of Synge's methods of work and development. This material,
including early drafts of the plays, notebooks, poems, and
fragments of poetic drama, has now been thoroughly explored in
order to create this definitive edition, first published by Oxford
University Press 1962-68, which not only collects together all that
is of significance in his printed and in his unprinted work, but
also, by a careful use of worksheets and early drafts, indicates
much of the process of creation which occurred before the
production of the printed page.
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