Collected poems 1988 (Oxford poets) - Softcover

Gascoyne, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 019211977X ISBN 13: 9780192119773

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1988

Synopsis

This volume incorporates the main body of Gascoyne's work, with poems to represent every period of his extensive career. It includes an introduction, in which Gascoyne describes the years he spent in France, a young poet in the vanguard of the surrealist movement.

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About the Author

David Gascoyne is a British poet and translator who has been publishing poetry since 1932. His books include Roman Balcony, Holderlin's Madness, Poems 1937-1942, Night Thoughts, and Collected Poems.

Review

After Twenty Springs
Amor Fati
Antennae
Apologia
Artist
An Autumn Park
Beware Beelzebub
Birth Of A Prince
The Cage
Camera Obscura
Cavatina
Chambre D'hotel
Charity Week
The Cold Renunciatory Beauty
The Cubical Domes
Demos In Oxford Street
The Descent
The Diabolical Principle
Dichters Leben
Educative Process
Elegiac Improvisation On The Death Of Paul Eluard
Elegy (in Memoriam - June 1941, R. R.)
Epilogue
Epode
Eros Absconditus
Eve
Evening Again
The Fabulous Glass
Farewell Chorus
The Fault
Fete
Figure In A Landscape
The Fortress
Fragments Towards A Religio Poetae
From A Diary
The Goose-girl
The Gravel-pit Field
Inferno
Innocence And Experience
Insurrection
Jardin Du Palais Royal
The Last Head
Legendary Fragment
Light Of The Sun Over Arctic Regions
Lines
A Little Zodiak For K. J. R.
Lowland
Lozanne
Miserere: De Profundis
Miserere: Ecce Homo
Miserere: Ex Nihilo
Miserere: Kyrie
Miserere: Lachrymae
Miserere: Pieta
Miserere: Sanctus
Miserere: Tenebrae
Morning Dissertation
Mountains
Mozart; Sursum Corda
Night Thoughts: 1. The Nightwatchers
Night Thoughts: 2. Megalometropolitan Carnival
Night Thoughts: 3. Encounter With Silence
No Solution
Noctambules
Not Having Knife-edge To My Ermine Cape
Odeur De Pensee
The Open Tomb
Orpheus In The Underworld
The Other Larry
Oxford: A Spring Day
Phantasmagoria
Phenomena
Photograph
The Plummet Heart
The Post-war Night
Purified Disgust
Reported Missing
Requiem
Rex Mundi
The Rites Of Hysteria
Rondel For The Fourth Decade
The Sacred Hearth
Salvador Dali
The Second Coming
Sentimental Colloquy
September Sun: 1947
Slate
Snow In Europe
Sonnet: From Morn To Mourning
Sonnet: The Uncertain Battle
Spring Mcmxl
Tenebrae
The Three Stars
Three Venetian Nocturnes: 1. Barcarolle
Three Venetian Nocturnes: 2. Lido Gala Fireworks
Three Venetian Nocturnes: 3. On The Grand Canal
To A Contemporary
To Benjamin Fondane
A Tough Generation
'the Truth Is Blind'
The Unattained
Unspoken
A Vagrant
Venus Androgyne
The Very Image
Walking At Whitsun
The Wall
A Wartime Dawn
Winter Garden
World Without End
The Writer's Hand
Yves Tanguy
Zero
-- Table of Poems from Poem FinderŪ

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 019211977X
• ISBN 13: 9780192119773
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 230