Voce chiave tra i "poeti degli anni Trenta", questo autore ha coltivato uno stile sia rilassato che profondamente in sintonia con le correnti sociali ed emotive. La sua scrittura naviga attraverso paesaggi politici con una sensibilità umana, offrendo un'opposizione ponderata al totalitarismo senza eccessiva semplicità. Tornava frequentemente alle sue radici irlandesi, infondendo nel suo lavoro una prospettiva unica plasmata da questa eredità. I lettori apprezzavano la sua poesia socialmente consapevole ma emotivamente risonante, che ottenne un considerevole successo di pubblico durante la sua vita.
A radio parable play, written in response to the rise of fascism in Germany and the events of World War II. It stages the debate about free will with reference to the ancient theme of the Quest, but in modern contexts exploring sexuality, gender, family and geography.
John Berryman was an energetic correspondent. Assembled here for the first time, his letters tell of generosity, ambition, and struggle. He has encouraging words for fellow poets and younger writers and is deeply engaged in literary culture. But also visible are the struggles of a working artist grappling with alcoholism and depression.
The Strings are False is Louis MacNeice's unfinished autobiography. Described by Geoffrey Grigson in the Guardian as 'the best thing Louis MacNeice ever wrote in prose' The Strings are False is being reissued in MacNeice's centenary year with a new preface by Derek Mahon.
This volume brings together all of Berryman's poetry, except for his epic The Dream Songs, ranging from his earliest unpublished poem (1934) to those written in the last months of his life (1972). A definitive edition of one of America's most distinguished poets.
Zoo also benefited from illustrations by the painter Nancy Sharp, with whom MacNeice had begun an affair after moving to London in 1936.This Faber Finds edition returns to circulation a delightful rarity by one of the twentieth century's most brilliant poets.
Written between August and December 1938, Autumn Journal is still considered one of the most valuable and moving testaments of living through the thirties by a young writer.
In the decades since his death in 1963, Louis MacNeice's reputation as a poet has grown steadily, and there are now several generations of readers in Ireland, Britain, and beyond, for whom he is one of the essential poets of the twentieth century. This edition presents MacNeice's poetry more accurately, as well as more fully.
Some months before his tragic death in January 1972, John Berryman completed this selection from the whole of his published poetry. It reveals clearly that Berryman was one of the most original and important poets of the twentieth century.
Louis MacNeice's prescription is designed to look ordinary, rather than esoteric. This work states that very little poetry can claim to meet these specifications, stringent in their very wideness. It tells how MacNeice's work matches the world he famously described as 'incorrigibly plural'.