Collected Poems: Hope Mirrlees
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This book brings a brilliant modernist back into the poetic limelight.
Hope Mirrlees was een Britse vertaler, dichter en romanschrijver wiens werk varieerde van realisme tot fantasie. Haar poëzie, geprezen als "het verloren meesterwerk van het modernisme", duikt diep in complexe menselijke emoties en poëtische landschappen. In haar proza verkende ze vaak de complexiteit van liefde en intellectuele verwikkelingen, met een stijl die gekenmerkt werd door subtiliteit en inzicht. Mirrlees liet een onderscheidende stempel achter op de literatuur door haar veelzijdige beheersing van genres en haar unieke perspectief.





This book brings a brilliant modernist back into the poetic limelight.
Centenary edition of 'modernism's lost masterpiece'.
The town of Lud is a prosperous, bustling little country port, situated at the confluence of two rivers: the Dawl and the Dapple. The latter, which has its source in the land of Faerie beyond the Elfin Marches and the Debatable Hills, is a source of great trial to Lud, which had long rejected such fanciful nonsense as fairies, elves and the like. Then a perfect plague of faerie influences hits the town, penetrating even to Miss Primrose Crabapple's Establishment for Young Ladies, and it becomes apparent to even the stuffiest burgher that Steps Would Have To Be Taken. Fortunately for everyone, Master Nathaniel Chanticleer, Mayor of Lud, is a man with his head firmly in the clouds ...
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