Despair Has Wings - Selected Poems

Informationen zum Autor Pierre Jean Jouve (1887-1976) is regarded in France as one of the twentieth century's greatest poets.David Gascoyne's death in November 2001 was marked by the lead obituraries in all the British broadsheets as well as in Le Monde. As a poet and translator he has been internationally renowned since the 1930s. He was the first chronicler in English of the Surrealist movement! and an essayist and reviewer of dazzling range. Klappentext This collection includes all David Gascoyne's published and uncollected translations of poems by his mentor French writer Pierre Jean Jouve. Also included are reprints of Gascoyne's translations of two significant essays by Jouve. The Appendix comprises letters in facsimile, unpublished poems by Gascoyne. and three of his articles on Jouve. Zusammenfassung A collection of Gascoyne's poems and Pierre Jean Jouve's essays.

Product details

• Authors: Pierre Jean Jouve
• Assisted by: Roger Scott (Editor), David Gascoyne (Translation)
• Publisher: Enitharmon
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.11.2007
• EAN: 9781904634409
• ISBN: 978-1-904634-40-9
• No. of pages: 222
• Subject: Fiction > Poetry, drama