Selected poetry and prose of Edmond Holmes / John Howlett.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Holmes, Edmond, 1850-1936, author.

Contributor:

Howlett, John, editor, author.

Standardized Title:

Works. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Holmes, Edmond, 1850-1936--Criticism and interpretation.

Holmes, Edmond.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (201 p.)

Place of Publication:

Published by Madison, New Jersey : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Copublished by Lanham, Maryland : The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Incorporated, [2016]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"This book represents the first scholarly collection of the work of an overlooked and neglected British poet. Featuring a comprehensive introduction and notes from Holmes's official biographer, this collection breaks new ground in offering for the first time a fresh new body of work in the canon of nineteenth- and twentieth-century poetry" -- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction

Poems (1876)

Poems second series (1879)

The silence of love (1899)

The triumph of love (1903)

The creed of my heart and other poems (1912)

Sonnets to the universe (1918)

Appendix A: What is poetry?

Appendix B: Holmes' obituary in The Times, October 16th 1936

Appendix C: Holmes' obituary in the New York Times

Notes.

Notes:

This collection brings together the six volumes of poetry published by Holmes over a period of 42 years (1876-1918), comprising some 230 odd poems, and includes his essay on criticism, "What is poetry?"

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-61147-929-0