William Alexander Percy

Collected Poems

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Nothing would have given Will Percy greater delight-he died in January 1942-than this Collected Poems, for although he was lawyer, soldier, cosmopolitan, plantation-owner, and patriot, it was as a poet that he chose to think himself. And indeed this is a volume to be treasured by those whose memories go fondly back to days of quieter, more contemplative living. For Percy was not in any sense a modernist; his love of tradition is as evident in these poems as it was in his prose. Here again is the same gentle quality of nostalgia which has made Lanterns on the Levee one of the most charming and authentic pictures of the old South at its best.Pe… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-385-35240-6
EAN: 9780385352406
Produktnummer: 15725113
Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
Seitenangabe: 400 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 2'473 KB

Über den Autor

WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY was the author of four books of poetry, and he practiced law in Greenville until his death, one year after the publication of his autobiography. Awarded the Croix de Guerre with gold star for his service in World War I, he also was one of the leaders in the succesful 1922 fight against the Ku Klux Klan in Greenville and headed the local Red Cross unit during the disastrous Mississippi River flooding of 1927.