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Journey from Winter: Selected Poems
Valentine Ackland
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Description for Journey from Winter: Selected Poems
Paperback. The poetry of Valentine Ackland (1906-69) touches the twentieth century at key points. The poet who worked for the Red Cross during the Spanish Civil War lived to oppose the war in Vietnam. This book discusses each stage of Ackland's life, sets her work in context, and makes an important contribution to placing Ackland in twentieth-century poetry. Editor(s): Bingham, Frances. Num Pages: 236 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 135 x 19. Weight in Grams: 308.
The poetry of Valentine Ackland (1906-69) touches the twentieth century at key points. The poet who worked for the Red Cross during the Spanish Civil War lived to oppose the war in Vietnam. A Communist Party member in the 1930s, she became a Roman Catholic in the 1950s. In her political poems and her pastoral and spiritual lyrics, she displays a passionate commitment to truth. Above all, she is one of the most hauntingly erotic poets of the century. This is the first collection to draw on the full range of Ackland's poems, and includes the entire text of Whether ... Read more
The poetry of Valentine Ackland (1906-69) touches the twentieth century at key points. The poet who worked for the Red Cross during the Spanish Civil War lived to oppose the war in Vietnam. A Communist Party member in the 1930s, she became a Roman Catholic in the 1950s. In her political poems and her pastoral and spiritual lyrics, she displays a passionate commitment to truth. Above all, she is one of the most hauntingly erotic poets of the century. This is the first collection to draw on the full range of Ackland's poems, and includes the entire text of Whether ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
223
Condition
New
Number of Pages
223
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781857548761
SKU
V9781857548761
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About Valentine Ackland
Valentine Ackland was born in 1906. Her childhood embraced extremes of privilege and abuse within a wealthy but unhappy family. In 1930 she became Sylvia Townsend Warner's lover, and the two writers lived together in Dorset. By the end of the Second World War the relationship had become a stormy one, marked by intellectual disagreements. In latter years it became ... Read more
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