W. H. Davies (eBook, PDF)

Essays on the Super-Tramp Poet
Redaktion: Waterman, Rory

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Though Davies is a well-known and unique literary figure of the early twentieth century, most famous now for The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp and poems such as 'Leisure', which came 14th in the BBC's search to find 'The Nation's Favourite Poems', no other volume of essays, or other critical monograph, concentrates on his work. This book not only provides a reassessment of Davies, putting him in his literary and cultural context, but also sheds light on the many more central literary figures he encountered and befriended. The central aim of the book is to reconsider his major works and his place in the literary and cultural milieu of his period.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 194
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Januar 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781785274572
• Artikelnr.: 63604251

Autorenporträt

Rory Waterman is the author of three collections with Carcanet: Tonight the Summer's Over (2013), a PBS Recommendation shortlisted for a Seamus Heaney Award; Sarajevo Roses (2017), shortlisted for the Ledbury Forte Prize, and Sweet Nothings (2020). He also publishes a lot of literary criticism. He co-edits New Walk Editions, and is on the English faculty at Nottingham Trent University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. The Soul's Destroyer (1905): a reassessment
2. The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp and its enduring popularity/travel memoir
3. Supertramps and Beggars: Davies and Begging in America in the 1890s and 1900s
4. The novels and drama of W. H. Davies
5. Davies, print media, journalism and criticism
6. Davies and Georgian Poetry
7.'Stop and stare': Davies and 'nature poetry'
8. Davies: a Welsh writer?
9. Davies, society and gender
10. Davies and Literary London
11. Super-Tramp and Little Tramp: Davies, Chaplin and the landscapes of modernity
12. Davies and Edward Thomas: literary and personal influences
13. 'Poisoned earth and sky': Representations of War in Davies' poetry and memoir
Index.