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Bezig met laden... Collected Poems in English and Frenchdoor Samuel Beckett
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. 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 recesses. His odes echo. Much of this volume is Beckett's own translations of French poetry into English. 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 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. Even though these works are comparatively slight, I think my first reading of this volume was too breezy; nevertheless, "Whoroscope" yielded one of my most beloved phrases (and apparently most infuriating in-jokes): "In the name of Bacon will you chicken me up that egg. / Shall I swallow cave-phantoms?" Also, "Gnome" nicely, cruelly encapsulates the dubious pursuit of higher education: "Spend the years of learning squandering Courage for the years of wandering Through a world politely turning From the loutishness of learning." geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)841.914Literature French French poetry 1900- 1900-1999, 20th century 1945-1999LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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