Download e-book for iPad: Complete Poetry, Translations & Selected Prose by Bernard Spencer,Peter Robinson

Bernard Spencer (1909-63) used to be a particular voice in 20th-century English poetry, and a important determine within the own panorama crew of wartime Cairo writers. He spent a lot of his lifestyles operating for the British Council, in Greece, Egypt, Italy, Spain, Turkey and Austria, the settings for lots of of his poems. He was once one of the first translators of George Seferis into English, and his expatriate colleagues integrated Lawrence Durrell and Olivia Manning. A recurrent subject matter in his poetry is a selected feel of gregarious loneliness, of being somebody aside. residing for a few years in non-English-speaking groups, he grew to become, fairly consciously, 'a stranger here', a poet whose subtly creative options and 'respect for the Object', as Durrell positioned it, served to mend and outline modes of non-public, cultural and political unease. He was once to post simply complete collections, Aegean Islands and different Poems (1946) and With success Lasting (1963), in the course of his lifetime. according to Roger Bowen's pioneering accumulated Poems (OUP, 1981), this new version of Spencer's works is the 1st to incorporate all his poetry, his translations from George Seferis, Odysseus Elytis and Eugenio Montale (made on my own, or in collaboration with Lawrence Durrell and Nanos Valaoritis), and choices of his prose -including serious and trip writings, memoirs, interviews, occasional reviews on poetry, and his obituary for Keith Douglas. anyplace attainable the texts are derived both from manuscript and typescript holdings within the poet's vital archive on the collage of analyzing and others dispersed in other places, or checked opposed to these numerous resources. The publication has an creation via poet, translator, and literary critic Peter Robinson in addition to huge notes at the released texts and an entire bibliography of Spencer's writings.