Spanning several decades of her life, multiple continents, and significant events, this collection of Hope Mirrlees's poetry includes previously unpublished work and the modernist writer's later poems and essays, written circa 1920. Also included is the full text of Paris: A Poe…
by ebrary, Inc, Briggs, Julia, Mirrlees, Hope, Parmar, Sandeep
fromFyfield Books
Hope Mirrlees (1887-1978) has long been regarded as the lost modernist. Her extraordinary long poem Paris (1920), a journey through a day in post First World War Paris, was considered by Virginia Woolf 'obscure, indecent, and brilliant'. Read today, the poem retains its exhilara…
"Hope Mirrlees (1887-1978) has been regarded as a lost modernist. Her extraordinary long poem 'Paris,' written in 1919, is a journey through a day in post First World War Paris. It was considered by Virginia Woolf 'obscure, indecent, and brilliant.' Read today, the poem retains …