The Worm Ouroboros - Softcover

Eddison, E. R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 143410222X ISBN 13: 9781434102225

Publisher: Waking Lion Press, 2008

Synopsis

"An energy such as came on the poets has visited the author of this book, and his dedicatory statement, that 'it is neither allegory nor fable but a story to be read for its own sake,' puts us off with the assured arrogance of the poet who is too busy creating to have time for school-mastering. But, waking or in dream, this author has been in strange regions and has supped at a torrent which only the greatest know of."

About this title

About the Author

Eddison's books are written in a meticulously recreated Jacobean prose style, seeded throughout with fragments, often acknowledged but often directly copied from his favorite authors and genres: Homer and Sappho, Shakespeare and Webster, Norse sagas and French medieval lyric poems. Critic Andy Sawyer has noted that such fragments seem to arise naturally from the "barbarically sophisticated" worlds Eddison has created.

Edition details

• Publisher: Waking Lion Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 143410222X
• ISBN 13: 9781434102225
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 412