Dolphins / Stephen Spender.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Spender, Stephen, 1909-1995.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dolphins--Poetry.

Dolphins.

English poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Azzolina, David S. 1957- (donor) (RBC copies)

Physical Description:

46 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Faber and Faber, 1994.

Summary:

Dolphins is Stephen Spender's first new volume of poetry since his Collected Poems appeared in 1985. Although most of the poems included here were completed recently, they cover a whole lifetime of experience, going back to memories of childhood during the First World War and advancing to old age. Written for anonymous friends or for prominent contemporaries like Simone Weil or Isaiah Berlin, these poems explore the images of war, the loss of childhood, or the longing for freedom, however evanescent. When read as one work, these poems, like dolphins, "leap out of the surface of waves reflecting the sun." Dolphins is a testament to the transcendent power of poetry, a book of enduring and lyrical verse written by one of the greatest poets of our age.

Contents:

Dolphins

Her House

Lines for Roy Fuller

Air Raid

Letter from an Ornithologist in Antarctica

Farewell to My Student

Laughter

History and Reality

The Half of Life

The Palatine Anthology

Have-Beens

Poetes Maudits

Room

Grandparents

Black-and-White Photography

A First War Childhood

Worldsworth

Six Variations

The Alphabet Tree.

Notes:

Poems.

Local Notes:

Penn Rare copies presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by David Azzolina.

Penn Rare copies have copy 1 (hardback) and copy 2 (softcover).

ISBN:

0571140696

057114070X

0571172822

OCLC:

29754959