Wyndham Lewis: Collected Poems and Plays - Hardcover

Wyndham Lewis

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ISBN 10: 0856351717 ISBN 13: 9780856351716

Publisher: Persea Books, 1979

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At the beginning of his career Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957) wrote vigorous poetry, and plays which in their form and vehement characterisation resemble the later work of Samuel Beckett. This volume includes major works: "One-Way Song," and "Enemy of the Stars" in its two very different versions, as well as other writings that can now be seen as central to the formation of Lewis's work. The plays and poems crackle with ferocious energy, concentrated and brilliant, as Lewis creates a literary equivalent to the visual revolutions of Cubism and Vorticism. He explores how an artist should think and write in an oppressive world, the relationship between imagination and action. This edition, with Alan Munton's annotations, is a definitive text based on Lewis's own final corrections. An introduction by C.H. Sisson places these radical works in the context of Lewis's other writings.

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About the Author:

Wyndham Lewis (1882 1957) was born on his father's yacht off Nova Scotia but grew up in England. The author of many novels, including "The Revenge for Love, The Apes of God", and "Tarr", he was associated with T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pund. Besides being a leading figure of the Modernist movement in English literature, Lewis was also a much-praised artist whose portraits of T.S. Eliot now hangs in the Durban Art Gallery in South Africa.

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