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The Palace of Oblivion
Peter Davidson
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Description for The Palace of Oblivion
Paperback. Baroque in its extravagance of language, in its delight in the bizarre and the prodigious, this collection presents a cabinet of curiosities, a world of ruined palaces, ghostly gardens and the fragile marvels of a secret past. It ends with a group of elegies and epistles concerned with place and history in northern Scotland. Num Pages: 59 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 138 x 217 x 18. Weight in Grams: 94.
Baroque in its extravagance of language, in its delight in the bizarre and the prodigious, Peter Davidson's collection is a cabinet of curiosities, a world of ruined palaces, ghostly gardens and the fragile marvels of a secret past. It moves between languages and continents, English and Latin, the Spanish Netherlands and Spanish America, the Mediterranean and the north. The title sequence evokes a half-known, half-fantastic, seventeenth century; a shorter sequence transforms contemporary England through the eyes of a spy. The collection ends with a group of elegies and epistles concerned with place and history in northern Scotland. Erudite and witty, ... Read more
Baroque in its extravagance of language, in its delight in the bizarre and the prodigious, Peter Davidson's collection is a cabinet of curiosities, a world of ruined palaces, ghostly gardens and the fragile marvels of a secret past. It moves between languages and continents, English and Latin, the Spanish Netherlands and Spanish America, the Mediterranean and the north. The title sequence evokes a half-known, half-fantastic, seventeenth century; a shorter sequence transforms contemporary England through the eyes of a spy. The collection ends with a group of elegies and epistles concerned with place and history in northern Scotland. Erudite and witty, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
59
Condition
New
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781857549263
SKU
V9781857549263
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About Peter Davidson
Peter Davidson was born in Scotland in 1957. He is currently Professor of Renaissance Studies at the University of Aberdeen. Peter has edited the Clarendon Poems and translations of Sir Richard Fanshawe (Vol I, 1998; II, 1999); The Clarendon Anthology of seventeenth century English Poetry , Poetry and Revolution ( 1998), and (with Jane Stevenson) Early Modern Women's Poetry (2001). ... Read more
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