Poetry Out of My Head and Heart

by Rosenberg, Isaac; Liddiard, Jean

• ISBN13: 9781904634386
• ISBN10: 1904634389
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-06-01
• Publisher: Enitharmon Press

Summary

Unpublished letters of Jewish World War I poet Isaac Rosenberg.

Author Biography

Isaac Rosenberg was born in Bristol in 1890 to Jewish immigrant parents from Lithuania. His family moved to the East End of London in 1897, and after a rudimentary education Rosenberg at 14 was apprenticed to an engraver. Wealthy patrons enabled him to study at the Slade School of Art (1911-14) at the same time as Stanley Spencer and Mark Gertler, and for nine months in 1914-15 he lived in South Africa. The only poems to be collected in his lifetime were self-published in a pamphlet form – Night and Day (1912), Youth (1915) and Moses (1916). Enlisting in the Army in October 1915 he served on the Western Front until his death on night patrol on 1 April 1918.

Table of Contents

List of main publications cited with abbreviations	p. 8
Foreword	p. 9
Chronology	p. 15
Friends and correspondents of Rosenberg mentioned in the letters	p. 22
Publications by Rosenberg and main collections of his manuscripts, paintings and drawings	p. 25
Introduction	p. 29
Unpublished material at the British Library	p. 57
Letters and draft poem to Laurence Binyon	p. 61
Letters and draft poems to Gordon Bottomley	p. 69
Correspondence with Laurence Binyon about Rosenberg, including memoirs by Frank Emanuel, Winifreda Seaton, Morley Dainow and Annie Rosenberg	p. 124
Appendix: final published versions of the poems (as edited by Vivien Noakes)	p. 137
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