Hope Mirrlees: Collected Poems

by Mirrlees, Hope; Parmar, Sandeep

• ISBN13: 9781847770752
• ISBN10: 1847770754
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-10-01
• Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd.

Summary

Spanning several decades of her life, multiple continents, and significant events, this collection of Hope Mirrlees's poetry includes previously unpublished work and the modernist writer's later poems and essays, written circa 1920. Also included is the full text of Paris: A Poem--a daylong, psycho-geographical flanerie through the streets and metro tunnels of post-World War I Paris. Groundbreaking and illuminating, this volume is a testament to Mirrlees's contribution to 20th-century poetry.

Author Biography

Hope Mirrlees was a British translator, poet, and novelist. She is the author of numerous books, including The Counterplot, Lud-in-the-Mist, Madeleine: One of Love’s Jansenists, and Paris: A Poem. She lives in New York City. Sandeep Parmar is a visiting scholar at New York University, where she also teaches, as well as a former English literature and creative writing professor at the University of Hertfordshire and at the University of Cambridge. She has published numerous articles and contributed to The Salt Companion to Mina Loy.