Selected Poems
by:
Stevie Smith (author)
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 eye for the marvels of the ordinary and her sensibility to the paradoxical nature of all human emotions. This book contains her...
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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 eye for the marvels of the ordinary and her sensibility to the paradoxical nature of all human emotions. This book contains her poems.
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ISBN:
9780141186559 (0141186550)
Edition language: English
An edited collection of Smith's poems, spanning a huge range of themes, moods and textures, including social commentary gentle and scathing, tributes to animals and protest at their maltreatment, explorations of tensions in religious faith and whimsical forays into myth and fairytale worldsSmith's p...