The Only Poet (2010)
“Several pieces were found among her unpublished papers after her death and, of the others, only one has ever been collected before. They embrace her entire writing career, a career which spanned most of the twentieth century – from the unfinished novel Adela, written while she was still in her teens, to the magnificent fragments of a late novel, The Only Poet, probably begun in the late 1950s and still being worked on in the late 1970s, a few years before her death in 1983. Here we can trace mo...st of the concerns and preoccupations which engaged a writer for whom emotional and intellectual passion had equal and sometimes troubling primacy. For readers familiar with her work this collection should offer an illuminating and satisfying addition to her body of published fiction, while new readers will find an alluring introduction to her writing.
Rebecca West once provocatively described herself (in Black Lamb and Grey Falcon) as a ‘typical Englishwoman’. English she was not, having Irish and Scottish ancestry; ‘typical’ she certainly was not, being something of a phoenix and, occasionally, monstre sacré; above all, the range and intensity of her intellectual interests are more akin to those of the European intellectual than those of a ‘typical Englishwoman’.MoreLess
Rebecca West once provocatively described herself (in Black Lamb and Grey Falcon) as a ‘typical Englishwoman’. English she was not, having Irish and Scottish ancestry; ‘typical’ she certainly was not, being something of a phoenix and, occasionally, monstre sacré; above all, the range and intensity of her intellectual interests are more akin to those of the European intellectual than those of a ‘typical Englishwoman’.MoreLess
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