Collected Poems

Name: Collected Poems
Brand: Carcanet Press Ltd

Carcanet Press Ltd

Collected PoemsAuthor(s): Hope Mirrlees, Sandeep Parmar\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Carcanet Press Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Fyfield Books\nISBN-13: 9781847770752, 978-1847770752\nSynopsis\nHope Mirrlees [tel] has long been regarded as the lost modernist. Her extraordinary long poem Paris [tel], a journey through a day in post First World War Paris, was considered by Virginia Woolf obscure, indecent, and brilliant. Read today, the poem retains its exhilarating daring. Mirrleess experimentalism looks forward to The Waste Land; her writing is integral to the twentieth-century canon.\n\nAnd yet, after Paris, Mirrlees published no more poetry for almost half a century, and her later poems appear to have little in common with the avant garde spirit of Paris. In this first edition to gather the full span of Mirrleess poetry, Sandeep Parmar explores the paradoxes of Mirrleess development as a poet and the complexities of her life.\n\nSandeep Parmar was the first scholar to gain accesy