R.N. Currey's poetry records what happens to men in war and life.
This is a collection of poems by the poet and writer R.N. Currey. Born in Mafeking in 1907, R.N. Currey was a soldier, poet and at one time a school teacher in Colchester.
R.N. Currey is a poet who has pleased poets: T.S.Eliot told him in 1945 that his collection This Other Planet was 'the best war poetry I have seen in these last six years'; Dylan Thomas was so taken with the wit of 'Pelican, St James's Park' that he recited it from memory on a traffic island in front of the BBC just after he had met R.N. Currey for the first time; Roy Campbell, Guy Butler and Jack Cope claimed his work for South Africa.
Rezensionen / Stimmen
Until now, R.N. Currey's reputation has depended too much on the handful of poems which appear in anthologies (for instance, 'Unseen Fire' from This Other Planet) and one hopes that this collection will change that. - -- C.J. Driver * THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT *
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Höhe: 234 mm
Breite: 156 mm
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978-0-85255-573-6 (9780852555736)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Introduction, Ronald Blythe; the heart of exile - a South African reading of the poems of R.N. Currey, Mike Kirkwood; chronology; "The Africa We Knew", David Philip 1973; "Tiresias", Oxford Unviersity Press 1940; "This Other Planet", Routledge 1947; "Indian Landscape", Routledge 1947; between two worlds, BBC Third Programme 1948; Christmas and family verse; people and places; flashback to America; "Formal Spring", Oxford University Press 1950; translations of French Renaissance poems and of French and Spanish romantic and 19th-century poems; return to Vaaldorp, BBC 1961.
