Title: Lawrence Durrell's poetry : a rift in the fabric of the world /
Authors: Keller-Privat, Isabelle
Year: 2019
Subjects: Durrell, Lawrence Criticism and interpretation.; Durrell, Lawrence Poetic works.; Durrell, Lawrence; Criticism and interpretation
Abstract: "Lawrence Durrell's Poetry offers an in-depth analysis of Lawrence Durrell's entire poetic opus, from his early collections in the 1940s up to his last one published in 1973. Thirty years of Durrellian poetry are brought together in order to unveil the genesis of Durrell's writing, both poetic and fictional." --
Contents: Introduction -- A private country: the poet's secret cartography -- Cities, plains and people: lands of exile and introspection -- On seeming to presume: the dream of a secret belonging -- "Dreams bursting at the seams to die": the tree of idleness, the mauled dream -- The ikons: Greece in the mind's eye -- The red limbo lingo: "thus words in music drown" -- Vega: the star of poetry -- Conclusion.