Collected poems
Since Norman Nicholson's death in 1987, his work has been represented only by a slender volume of Selected Poems. Readers who know him through that alone may be surprised by what his Collected Poems reveals of the true range of his output, as well as by the strength of its Christian element. Al...
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| Sprache: | English |
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Faber and Faber
1994
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| Zusammenfassung: | Since Norman Nicholson's death in 1987, his work has been represented only by a slender volume of Selected Poems. Readers who know him through that alone may be surprised by what his Collected Poems reveals of the true range of his output, as well as by the strength of its Christian element. All Nicholson's writing drew its nourishment from close observation of the part of Cumbria where he lived, and of which he was the most devoted, accurate and unsentimental describer and chronicler. In his introduction to this book, Neil Curry - a friend of Nicholson and a poet himself - discusses the nature of Nicholson's 'parochialism' and its paradoxical universality, demonstrating just what was meant when his Times obituarist called him 'the most gifted Christian poet of the century'. The full texts of Nicholson's five major volumes printed here together with many poems which have never before appeared in book form, substantiate that claim. |
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| Beschreibung: | Contents: Corregidor -- Carol for Holy Innocents' Day -- Before I Was Born -- Love Was There in Eden -- Five Rivers -- Egremont -- Cleator Moor -- Whitehaven -- St Bees -- Eskmeals 1943 -- To the River Duddon -- Cockley Moor, Dockray, Penrith -- Bombing Practice -- South Cumberland, 10 May, 1943 -- South Cumberland, 16 May, 1943 -- Coastal Journey -- Song -- Songs of the Island : I and II -- Maiden's Song -- For the Grieg Centenary -- Askam Unvisited -- Askam Visited -- Wales -- Shrewsbury -- September in Shropshire -- For Hokey and Henrietta -- For Anne and Alison -- Rockferns -- The Blackberry -- Horsetails -- Waiting for Spring 1943 -- Stalingrad : 1942 -- The Evacuees -- For St James, 1943 -- The Burning Bush -- Babylon -- Belshazzar -- The Raven -- The Wood of the Self-Murdered -- The First Day of Autumn -- Michaelmas -- Shortest Day, 1942 -- Now in the Time of this Mortal Life -- Carol -- Shepherds' Carol -- For the New Year -- Poem for Epiphany -- The Ride to Jerusalem |
| Beschreibung: | XXIV, 443 Seiten 23 cm |
| ISBN: | 0571170048 |