Stevie Smith: A Selection - edited by Hermione Lee

This comprehensive and welcoming edition draws on the whole of Stevie Smith's output in poetry, prose and drawings from Novel on Yellow Paper (1936) to Scorpion and Other Poems (1972). Hermione Lee's introduction and arrangement bring out the connections between Stevie Smith's different writings, and show us what an extraordinary and original writer she was. The selection is complemented by biographical and textual notes, and forms an attractive introduction to the work of an idiosyncratic English genius.

Product details

• Authors: Stevie Smith, Smith Stevie
• Assisted by: Hermione Lee (Editor), Professor Dame Hermione Lee (Editor)
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2019
• EAN: 9780571347704
• ISBN: 978-0-571-34770-4
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 131 mm x 198 mm x 15 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama > Poetry; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; POETRY / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Poetry by individual poets, Not Waving but Drowning; New Directions, Literary studies: poetry and poets