Download or read book All the Poems Stevie Smith written by Stevie Smith and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2022-03-15 with total page 847 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essential edition of one of modern poetry’s most distinctive voices: all Stevie Smith’s flabbergasting poems, now in paperback Stevie Smith is among the most popular British poets of the twentieth century. Her poem “Not Waving but Drowning” has been widely anthologized, and her life was celebrated in the classic movie Stevie. This new and updated edition includes hundreds of works from her thirty-five-year career. In addition to the poems and illustrations from all her published volumes, the Smith scholar Will May discovered never-before-published verses and provides fascinating details about their provenance. Satirical, mischievous, teasing, disarming, Stevie Smith’s poems take readers from comedy to tragedy and back again, while her line drawings are by turns unsettling and beguiling.
Download or read book Stevie Smith a Selection written by Stevie Smith and published by Faber & Faber Poetry. This book was released on 2019-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed especially for students but also for the general reader, this selection draws on the whole of Smith's output in poetry, prose, and drawings from Novel on Yellow Paper (1936) to Scorpion (1972), complemented by biographical and textual notes.
Download or read book Collected Poems written by Stevie Smith and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1983 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poems with drawings spanning the artists lifetime.
Download or read book Novel on Yellow Paper written by Stevie Smith and published by Virago Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stevie's alter ego Pompey is young, in love and working as a secretary for the magnificent Sir Phoebus Ullwater, Bt. In between making coffee and typing letters for Sir Phoebus, Pompey scribbles down - on yellow office paper - her quirky thoughts. Her flights of imagination take in Euripedes, sex education, Nazi Germany and the Catholic Church in England, shattering conventions in their wake.
Download or read book Stevie Smith s Resistant Antics written by Laura Severin and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author explores the connections between Smiths work and mass media production; twentieth-century historical events; her romantic and Victorian predecessors; and such contemporaries as Virginia Woolf, Dorothy Parker, Aldous Huxley, and Evelyn Waugh. By presenting Smith in the cultural milieu surrounding World War II, Severin illuminates the still dark period of British womens writing from 1930 to 1960. Focusing on the complete works of Stevie Smith, Severin suggests that Smiths boundary-crossing art forms, which transgress genres and even media, represent an attempt to undo the coherence of femininity as defined in the conservative period of World War II.
Download or read book Some are More Human Than Others written by Stevie Smith and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1989 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The British poet Stevie Smith, as her many readers well know, sprinkled her drawings throughout her poetry collections. In this sketchbook, Some Are More Human Than Others, she did the opposite--she spiced her drawings with words. Together they resound with what Robert Lowell described as Smith's "unique and cheerfully gruesome voice" and open up a little world of peculiar experience: something somber and something gay, innocent and cruel--truths of our world trapped off guard.
Download or read book A Good Time was Had by All written by Stevie Smith and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Holiday written by Stevie Smith and published by Virago. This book was released on 2015-04-02 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celia works at the Ministry in the post-war England of 1949 and lives in a London suburb. Witty, fragile, quixotic, Celia is preoccupied with love - for her friends, her colleagues, her relations, and especially for her adored cousin Casmilus, with whom she goes on holiday to visit Uncle Heber, the vicar. Here they talk endlessly, argue, eat, tell stories, love and hate - moments of wild humour alternating with waves of melancholy as Celia ponders obsessively on the inevitable pain of love. In everything she wrote, Stevie Smith captured the paradox of pain in all human affections - nowhere more so than in this wry, strongly autobiographical tale.
Download or read book The Collected Poems Of Stevie Smith written by Stevie Smith and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 591 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Me Again written by Stevie Smith and published by Virago Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stevie Smith (1902-1971) is most famous as a poet and for her three extraordinary novels. But, throughout her life, stories, essays, reviews, a radio play, poems and drawings poured from her witty and magnificent pen and this volume is this first to collect them. She had a unique eye for what is wonderful in the ordinary, and her perceptions about friendship, love and the complexities of life have rarely been equalled. Dominating these writings is her unforgettable humour and wit, quintessentially English yet absolutely universal. ME AGAIN illuminates and confirms the splendid and varied qualities which constitute the genius of Stevie Smith.
Download or read book A Very Pleasant Evening with Stevie Smith written by Stevie Smith and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1995 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A great poet and novelist (Novel on Yellow Paper), Stevie Smith also wrote delightful short prose. And here, in A Very Pleasant Evening with Stevie Smith, is the very best of it: eight stories and four essays mixing throw-away charm and deadly sophistication. Her stories delight and surprise; her essays defend favorite subjects, such as cats and the suburbs. "Life in the suburbs is richer at the lower levels. At these levels people are not self-conscious at all, they are at liberty to be as eccentric as they please, they do not know they are eccentric".
Download or read book Scorpion and Other Poems written by Stevie Smith and published by London : Longman. This book was released on 1972 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Collected Poems and Drawings of Stevie Smith written by Stevie Smith and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2015-10-15 with total page 819 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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, Smith scholar 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. I was much further out than you thought And not waving but drowning. - 'Not Waving but Drowning'
Download or read book Harold s Leap written by Stevie Smith and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Stevie Smith written by Frances Spalding and published by Sutton Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This updated edition of the classic biography questions the accepted perception of Stevie Smith as a recluse.
Download or read book Over The Frontier written by Stevie Smith and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2015-04-02 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is 1936. Pompey Casmilus (the heroine of Smith's debut, Novel on Yellow Paper) lives in London with her beloved Aunt, bothered by the menace of German militarism, bothered too by the humbug which confronts it, bothered most of all by her hopeless love affair with Freddy. Its ending plunges Pompey into melancholy; six months of rest and recuperation are prescribed and Pompey goes to Schloss Tilssen on the northern German border, only to fall in with a strange band of conspirators: the plum-coloured Mrs Pouncer, the absent-minded Colonel Peck and the dashing Major Tom Satterthwaite, whom Pompey comes to love. How Pompey gets into uniform and becomes a spy is only one of the astounding events in this extraordinary novel which, on a serious level, is also about a powerful investigation of power and cruelty in a world preparing for war.
Download or read book The Frog Prince and Other Poems written by Stevie Smith and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
