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Selected Poems

Author : William Plomer
Publisher : Memento
ISBN 13 : 9780993505638
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (56 download)

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Download or read book Selected Poems written by William Plomer and published by Memento. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He was E. M Forster's 'favorite contemporary poet'. W. H Auden extolled his 'first-class visual imagination'. Stephen Spender considered his output 'among the best English poems written in the present century'. Yet for most readers, William Plomer (1903--1973) is now a faintly-remembered name. Born in Pietersburg, South Africa, Plomer settled in London in 1929, where he went on to occupy a central position in English letters. By the time of his death he had published ten books of poetry. In a voice impersonal and strange, Plomer's best poems reveal a mind that delights in the 'sensory, pictorial and plastic' (though not, as he thought, at the expense of the metaphysical).

The Diamond of Jannina; Ali Pasha, 1741-1822

Author : William Plomer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Diamond of Jannina; Ali Pasha, 1741-1822 written by William Plomer and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ali Pasha may have kept 'a carefully guarded Antinous' in his harem, p. 90 -dm.

Turbott Wolfe

Author : William Plomer
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780192818904
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (189 download)

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Download or read book Turbott Wolfe written by William Plomer and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1985 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A record of a struggle against the forces of prejudice and fear, Turbott Wolfe is a landmark in both English and South African literature which remains timely today. Published in 1925, the wide critical attention it attracted in England was matched by the political controversy it caused in South Africa.

Britten and the Far East

Author : Mervyn Cooke
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 9780851158303
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (583 download)

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Download or read book Britten and the Far East written by Mervyn Cooke and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 1998 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigation into the influence of Eastern music on Britten's composition. Benjamin Britten's interest in the musical traditions of the Far East had a far-reaching influence on his compositional style; this book is the first to investigate the highly original cross-cultural synthesis he was able to achieve through the use of material borrowed from Balinese, Japanese and Indian music. Britten's visit to Indonesia and Japan in 1955-6 is reconstructed from archival sources, and shown to have had a profound impact on his subsequent work: the techniques of Balinese gamelan music were used in the ballet The Prince of the Pagodas (1957), and then became an essential feature of Britten's compositional style, at their most potent in Death in Venice(1973). The No drama and Gagaku court music of Japan were the inspiration for the trilogy of church parables Britten composed in the 1960s. The precise nature of these influences is discussed; Britten's sporadic borrowings from Indian music are also fully analysed. There is a survey of critical responses to Britten's cross-cultural experiments. Dr MERVYN COOKE lectures in music at the University of Nottingham.

Kilvert's Diary

Author : Francis Kilvert
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1784875716
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (848 download)

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Download or read book Kilvert's Diary written by Francis Kilvert and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2020-01-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few have written more beautifully about the British countryside than Francis Kilvert. A country clergyman born in 1840, Kilvert spent much of his time visiting parishioners, walking the lanes and fields of Herefordshire and writing in his diary. Full of passionate delight in the natural world and the glory of the changing seasons, his diaries are as generous, spontaneous and vivacious as Kilvert himself. He is an irresistible companion. This new edition of William Plomer’s original selection contains new archival material as well as a fascinating introduction illuminating Kilvert’s world and the history of the diaries. ‘One of the best books in English’ Sunday Times 'Kilvert has touched and delighted (and mildly shocked) readers of his diaries ever since they were first published. New readers are in for a treat' Alan Bennett

Borderline Ballads

Author : William Plomer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Borderline Ballads written by William Plomer and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Sado

Author : William Plomer
Publisher : London : Hogarth Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sado written by William Plomer and published by London : Hogarth Press. This book was released on 1960 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Butterfly's Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast

Author : William Roscoe
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
ISBN 13 : 1613100728
Total Pages : 14 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book The Butterfly's Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast written by William Roscoe and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Man with the Golden Typewriter

Author : Ian Fleming
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1408865475
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book The Man with the Golden Typewriter written by Ian Fleming and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 16 August 1952, Ian Fleming wrote to his wife, Ann, 'My love, This is only a tiny letter to try out my new typewriter and to see if it will write golden words since it is made of gold'. He had bought the gold-plated typewriter as a present to himself for finishing his first novel, Casino Royale. It marked in glamorous style the arrival of James Bond, agent 007, and the start of a career that saw Fleming become one of the world's most celebrated thriller writers. And he did write golden words. Before his death in 1964 he produced fourteen bestselling Bond books, two works of non-fiction and the famous children's story Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang. Fleming's output was matched by an equally energetic flow of letters. He wrote constantly, to his wife, publisher, editors, fans, friends and critics, charting 007's progress with correspondence that ranged from badgering Jonathan Cape about his quota of free copies �- a coin was tossed; Fleming lost - to apologising for having mistaken a certain brand of perfume and for equipping Bond with the wrong kind of gun. His letters also reflect his friendships with contemporaries such as Raymond Chandler, No�l Coward and Somerset Maugham. Before the world-famous films came the world-famous novels. This books tells the story of the man who wrote them and how he created spy fiction's most compelling hero.

The Autobiography of William Plomer

Author : William Plomer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book The Autobiography of William Plomer written by William Plomer and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A History of South African Literature

Author : Christopher Heywood
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781139455329
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (553 download)

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Download or read book A History of South African Literature written by Christopher Heywood and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-11-18 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a critical study of South African literature, from colonial and pre-colonial times onwards. Christopher Heywood discusses selected poems, plays and prose works in five literary traditions: Khoisan, Nguni-Sotho, Afrikaans, English, and Indian. The discussion includes over 100 authors and selected works, including poets from Mqhayi, Marais and Campbell to Butler, Serote and Krog, theatre writers from Boniface and Black to Fugard and Mda, and fiction writers from Schreiner and Plaatje to Bessie Head and the Nobel prizewinners Gordimer and Coetzee. The literature is explored in the setting of crises leading to the formation of modern South Africa, notably the rise and fall of the Emperor Shaka's Zulu kingdom, the Colenso crisis, industrialisation, the colonial and post-colonial wars of 1899, 1914, and 1939, and the dissolution of apartheid society. In Heywood's study, South African literature emerges as among the great literatures of the modern world.

Literary Community-Making

Author : Roger D. Sell
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027210314
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book Literary Community-Making written by Roger D. Sell and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The writing and reading of so-called literary texts can be seen as processes which are genuinely communicational. They lead, that is to say, to the growth of communities within which individuals acknowledge not only each other's similarities but differences as well. In this new book, Roger D. Sell and his colleagues apply the communicational perspective to the past four centuries of literary activity in English. Paying detailed attention to texts both canonical and non-canonical by Amelia Lanyer, Thomas Coryate, John Boys, Pope, Coleridge, Arnold, Kipling, William Plomer, Auden, Walter Macken, Robert Kroetsch, Rudy Wiebe and Lyn Hejinian, the book shows how the communicational issues of addressivity, commonality, dialogicality and ethics have arisen in widely different historical contexts. At a metascholarly level, it suggests that the communicational criticism of literary texts has significant cultural, social and political roles to play in the post-postmodern era of rampant globalization.

The Pickup

Author : Nadine Gordimer
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0747557950
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (475 download)

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Download or read book The Pickup written by Nadine Gordimer and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2002-10-07 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Longlisted for the 2002 Booker Prize: the compelling story of a relationship between a young white South African woman and a young Arab man

Sado

Author : William Plomer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Sado written by William Plomer and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on Plomer's own experiences, this sensitive study of the meeting of East and West takes place in the Tokyo of the 1920s. It tells the story of Vincent Lucas, a naive young Englishman `with a little money and an ambition to become a painter', who is introduced to the life and art of Japan by Sado Masaji, an idealistic university student with a captivating air of melancholy.

A Century of South African Short Stories

Author : Jean Marquard
Publisher : Ad Donker
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book A Century of South African Short Stories written by Jean Marquard and published by Ad Donker. This book was released on 1978 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Leonard and Virginia Woolf, The Hogarth Press and the Networks of Modernism

Author : Helen Southworth
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748669213
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book Leonard and Virginia Woolf, The Hogarth Press and the Networks of Modernism written by Helen Southworth and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2012-05-08 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This multi-authored volume focuses on Leonard and Virginia Woolf's Hogarth Press (1917-1941). Scholars from the UK and the US use previously unpublished archival materials and new methodological frameworks to explore the relationships forged by the Woolfs

Learning to Kneel

Author : Carrie J. Preston
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231541546
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Learning to Kneel written by Carrie J. Preston and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-30 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this inventive mix of criticism, scholarship, and personal reflection, Carrie J. Preston explores the nature of cross-cultural teaching, learning, and performance. Throughout the twentieth century, Japanese noh was a major creative catalyst for American and European writers, dancers, and composers. The noh theater's stylized choreography, poetic chant, spectacular costumes and masks, and engagement with history inspired Western artists as they reimagined new approaches to tradition and form. In Learning to Kneel, Preston locates noh's important influence on such canonical figures as Pound, Yeats, Brecht, Britten, and Beckett. These writers learned about noh from an international cast of collaborators, and Preston traces the ways in which Japanese and Western artists influenced one another. Preston's critical work was profoundly shaped by her own training in noh performance technique under a professional actor in Tokyo, who taught her to kneel, bow, chant, and submit to the teachings of a conservative tradition. This encounter challenged Preston's assumptions about effective teaching, particularly her inclinations to emphasize Western ideas of innovation and subversion and to overlook the complex ranges of agency experienced by teachers and students. It also inspired new perspectives regarding the generative relationship between Western writers and Japanese performers. Pound, Yeats, Brecht, and others are often criticized for their orientalist tendencies and misappropriation of noh, but Preston's analysis and her journey reflect a more nuanced understanding of cultural exchange.