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Lawrence Durrell's poetry : a rift in the fabric of the world / Isabelle Keller-Privat.

"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 writin...

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Main Author: Keller-Privat, Isabelle (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Madison : Lanham, Maryland : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; copublished by The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2019]
Subjects:
Durrell, Lawrence > Criticism and interpretation.
Durrell, Lawrence > Poetic works.
Durrell, Lawrence.
Criticism and interpretation.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of 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.

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