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The collected poems and drawings of Stevie Smith

The collected poems and drawings of Stevie Smith
The collected poems and drawings of Stevie Smith
When Stevie Smith died in 1971 she was one of the twentieth-century's most popular poets; many of her poems have been widely anthologised, and 'Not Waving but Drowning' remains one of the nation's favourite poems to this day.

Satirical, mischievous, teasing, disarming, her characteristically lightning-fast changes in tone take readers from comedy to tragedy and back again, while her line drawings are by turns unsettling and beguiling. In this wholly new edition of her work, Will May collects together the illustrations and poems from her original published volumes for the first time, recording fascinating details about their provenance, and describing the various versions Smith presented both on stage and page. Including over 500 works from Smith's 35-year career, The Collected Poems and Drawings of Stevie Smith is the essential edition of modern poetry's most distinctive voice.
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Faber and Faber
Smith, Stevie
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May, W.B.
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May, W.B.
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Smith, Stevie , May, W.B. (ed.) (2015) The collected poems and drawings of Stevie Smith , London. Faber and Faber, 800pp.

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When Stevie Smith died in 1971 she was one of the twentieth-century's most popular poets; many of her poems have been widely anthologised, and 'Not Waving but Drowning' remains one of the nation's favourite poems to this day.

Satirical, mischievous, teasing, disarming, her characteristically lightning-fast changes in tone take readers from comedy to tragedy and back again, while her line drawings are by turns unsettling and beguiling. In this wholly new edition of her work, Will May collects together the illustrations and poems from her original published volumes for the first time, recording fascinating details about their provenance, and describing the various versions Smith presented both on stage and page. Including over 500 works from Smith's 35-year career, The Collected Poems and Drawings of Stevie Smith is the essential edition of modern poetry's most distinctive voice.

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Published date: 1 October 2015
Organisations: English

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Local EPrints ID: 377045
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/377045
ISBN: 057131130X
PURE UUID: 10b7b796-55f2-46bb-9d78-5fc91f3140fa

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Date deposited: 21 May 2015 13:07
Last modified: 14 Mar 2024 19:55

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Editor: W.B. May
Author: Stevie Smith

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