Poetry Books by Stevie Smith
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Published Date: 1999
Categories: Children's poetry, English
Stevie Smith's truly original way of looking at the world fires this imaginative and anarchic collection where anything is possible.
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Published Date: 2019-07-18
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Meditations, Lamentations, and Prayers for the Anxious Christian
Publisher: New Directions
Published Date: 2013
Categories: Poetry
A collection of sassy and mordantly amusing works by the late poet from London offers insight into her blending of classic themes and whimsy as well as her frequent exploration of death and parting. Original.
Publisher: Virago Press
Published Date: 1981
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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.
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Published Date: 2019-08
Categories: English poetry
This comprehensive and welcoming edition draws on the whole of Stevie Smith's output in poetry, prose and drawings from Novel on Yellow Paper (1936) to Scorpion and Other Poems (1972). Hermione Lee's introduction and arrangement bring out the connections between Stevie Smith's different writings, and show us what an extraordinary and original writer she was. The selection is complemented by biographical and textual notes, and forms an attractive introduction to the work of an idiosyncratic English genius.
Publisher: Hachette UK
Published Date: 2015-04-02
Categories: Fiction
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.
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Published Date: 1995
Categories: Fiction
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".
Publisher: Hachette UK
Published Date: 2015-04-02
Categories: Fiction
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.
Publisher: Barnes & Noble Imports
Published Date: 1985-06
Categories: Literary Criticism
Examines the poems and drawings of the late English poet, analyzes her unique style, and discusses the major themes of her work
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published Date: 2002-01-31
Categories: Poetry
Stevie Smith was one of the few modern poets to reach a wide general audience. Bizarre, witty, sad, sometimes caustic, her poems impart a zest for life, and reveal her unique eye for the marvels of the ordinary and her deep sensibility to the paradoxical nature of all human emotions.
Publisher: New Directions
Published Date: 2015-01-01
Categories: Poetry
The essential edition of one of modern poetry s most distinctive voices."
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published Date: 1988
Categories: Poetry
Replacing the slim volume which introduced Stevie Smith to American readers, New Selected Poems is chronologically arranged and contains 165 poems along with many of the author's doodles.
