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Grove/Atlantic (1977), Paperback
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This collection gathers together the Nobel Prize-winning writer Samuel Beckett's English poems (including Whoroscope, his first published verse), English translations of poems by Eluard, Rimbaud, Apollinaire, and Chamfort, and poems in French, several of which are presented in translation.
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LibraryThing member DanielSTJ
This was an interesting collection. However, not for the reason you might surmise. The strength in this collection relies heavily on the poems that Beckett wrote in French as well as those he translated. His poems in English leave much to be desired. Nevertheless, a decent collection and one worth
3.25 stars.
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reading.3.25 stars.
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LibraryThing member thornton37814
The book is divided into three sections--Beckett's English poems, Beckett's French poems (a few translated by the author himself; the remainder in French alone), and poems by French authors translated by Beckett. Beckett's poetry doesn't really "cut it" for me. It lacks the rhythms of favorite
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poets and uses a less polite vocabulary. While I enjoyed some of his shorter poems (in both English and French), the ones beyond about a dozen lines did not engage me. I enjoyed some of the other French poems but not others. Beckett's talent must lie in other forms of writing. Show Less
LibraryThing member jonfaith
I would like my love to die
and the rain to be raining on the graveyard
and on me walking the streets
mourning her who thought she loved me
This is a triumph, a whirlwind , an elegance of emotional acuity brocaded in jaw dropping language. He drifts from idiom into the pastoral. He reflects into
and the rain to be raining on the graveyard
and on me walking the streets
mourning her who thought she loved me
This is a triumph, a whirlwind , an elegance of emotional acuity brocaded in jaw dropping language. He drifts from idiom into the pastoral. He reflects into
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recesses. His odes echo. Much of this volume is Beckett's own translations of French poetry into English. Show Less
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8.2 inches
ISBN
039417013X / 9780394170138