Stevie Smith: A Selection

Name: Stevie Smith: A Selection
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SKU: 9780571347704
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edited by Hermione Lee

By Stevie Smith

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Summary

This comprehensive selection showcases the diverse talents of Stevie Smith, featuring poetry, prose, and drawings from Novel on Yellow Paper (1936) to Scorpion and Other Poems (1972). Hermione Lee's insightful introduction and arrangement reveal the rich connections across Smith's work, highlighting her originality and wit.

Accompanied by biographical and textual notes, this edition offers an inviting introduction to one of England's most idiosyncratic literary geniuses.
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Format: Paperback / softback

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Ideal for readers interested in modernist poetry and English literary culture, as well as those seeking an accessible entry into an original and distinctive writer's work.

The ideal introduction to a poet like no other - now reissued to join the Faber Poetry front-list

The ideal introduction to a poet like no other - now reissued to join the Faber Poetry front-list

Description

This comprehensive and welcoming edition draws on the whole of Stevie Smith's output in poetry, prose and drawings from Novel on Yellow Paper (1936) to Scorpion and Other Poems (1972).

Hermione Lee's introduction and arrangement bring out the connections between Stevie Smith's different writings, and show us what an extraordinary and original writer she was.

The selection is complemented by biographical and textual notes, and forms an attractive introduction to the work of an idiosyncratic English genius.

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TLS praises Smith as "a poet who deserves a place among her fellow modernists as one of the best, silly-serious, funny-sad, mock mock-heroic poets of our time."

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780571347704

Publisher: Faber & Faber

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 August 2019

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Faber & Faber

Edition: Main

Contributors:

Edited by Professor Dame Hermione Lee

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 15.0mm

Width: 131.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 290g

Pages: 224

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Arts & Culture Non-Fiction Poetry Stevie Smith

About the Author

Stevie Smith (1902-71) lived in Palmers Green, London, and for much of her life worked as a secretary for the magazine publishers Sir George Newnes and Sir Neville Pearson. Her first book, Novel on Yellow Paper, appeared in 1936, and her final collection of poems, Scorpion, was published posthumously in 1972. In 1966 she received a Cholmondeley Award and in 1969 was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry.

Biographer and critic Hermione Lee was President of Wolfson College from 2008 to 2017 and is Emeritus Professor of English Literature at Oxford University. In 2003 she was made a CBE and in 2013 she was made a Dame for services to literary scholarship.

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