Unicorns, Almost
Unicorns, Almost portrays the short life of World War II poet Keith Douglas, from his childhood through four engagements to his fighting in the Western desert, his accelerated education as a poet and his early death three days after the Normandy D-Day landings at the age of twenty-four. It is the story of his Faustian pact with a war that would nurture his unique poetic voice before taking it away. It is also the story of his desperate race to see his poems in print.Widely recognised as the finest poet of World War Two, Keith Douglas was championed by Ted Hughes as an important influence. Hughes wrote the introduction to Douglas's Collected P…
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- ISBN: 978-0-571-35035-3
- EAN: 9780571350353
- Produktnummer: 27632296
- Verlag: Canongate Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 96 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 252 KB
- Auflage: Main
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Owen Sheers
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