Cornwall in Verse - Hardcover

Cornwall in Verse

Cloth. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. First Edition. Hardback First Edition. Small hole to front D/J. Slight foxing to D/J. Slightly sunned spine to D/J. Cornwell is a land of secrets, of valleys and cliffs and sea, where, as Peter Redgrove reminds us in his delightful introduction to this new collection of poems inspired by the magic duchy, we are everywhere in the rhythm of the tides. This book is a book for visitor and native alike, a touchstone to bring the sea and the rhythm of the tides, the claypits and rivers strongly to the senses. We begin with Thomas Hardy's Lyonesse, pause at penelope Shittle's Three Lunulae at the Truror Musem, see Trebetherick with John betjeman and look over to Geoffrey Grigson's Isle of Scilly, Peter Porter, Charles Causley, D. M. Thomas and John Harris help us in our tour, which ends in Labyrinths.Everyone who reads Peter Redgrove's fascinating choice of poems will want to have this book with them when they visit or remember Cornwell. Illustrations. 68 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.). Artikel-Nr. 075345

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