William Plomer
Author : John Robert Doyle
Publisher :
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 23,52 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Authors, South African
ISBN :
Author : John Robert Doyle
Publisher :
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 23,52 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Authors, South African
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Author : William Plomer
Publisher : Memento
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 33,68 MB
Release : 2016
Category : English poetry
ISBN : 9780993505638
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).
Author : William Plomer
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 26,43 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Merchants
ISBN : 9780192818904
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.
Author : William Plomer
Publisher :
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 33,45 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
"Ali Pasha may have kept 'a carefully guarded Antinous' in his harem, p. 90 -dm.
Author : Mervyn Cooke
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 34,9 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780851158303
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.
Author : Hogarth Press
Publisher :
Page : 1 pages
File Size : 34,83 MB
Release : 1932*
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Author : Francis Kilvert
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 23,33 MB
Release : 2020-01-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1784875716
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
Author : William Plomer
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 14,20 MB
Release : 1960
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Author : William Plomer
Publisher : London : Hogarth Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 20,12 MB
Release : 1960
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Author : Peter F. Alexander
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 27,18 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Dealing frankly with all areas of his private and professional life, and the central role his homosexuality played in them, this book paints a fascinating portrait of William Plomer (1903-73), author of Turbott Wolfe, from his beginnings in South Africa to his rise to literary and publishing prominence in England in the 1930s and 1940s.