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By (author) Beckett, Samuel
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It was as a poet that Samuel Beckett launched himself in the littlereviews of 1930s Paris, and as a poet that he ended his career.
The Collected Poemsis the most complete edition of Beckett”s poetry and verse translationsever to be published, as well as the first critical edition.
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It was as a poet that Samuel Beckett launched himself in the littlereviews of 1930s Paris, and as a poet that he ended his career.
The Collected Poemsis the most complete edition of Beckett”s poetry and verse translationsever to be published, as well as the first critical edition. Itestablishes a significant new canon, and the commentary draws on a widerange of published sources, manuscripts and Beckett”s extensivecorrespondence.
The notes place each poem in context, detailingthe history and circumstances of its composition; they indicatesignificant variants and help explain obscure turns of phrase andallusions (frequently sourced to Beckett”s notebooks); they alsoidentify resonances between poems and across Beckett”s work as a whole.The commentary is written in a lively and engaging style and is intendedequally for the general reader, the student of modernism and theBeckett specialist.
Biographical note:
Samuel Beckett was born in Dublin in 1906. He was educated at PortoraRoyal School and Trinity College, Dublin, where he graduated in 1927.His made his poetry debut in 1930 with Whoroscope and followed it with essays and two novels before World War Two. He wrote one of his most famous plays, Waiting for Godot, in 1949 but it wasn”t published in English until 1954. Waiting for Godotbrought Beckett international fame and firmly established him as aleading figure in the Theatre of the Absurd. He received the Nobel Prizefor Literature in 1961. Beckett continued to write prolifically forradio, TV and the theatre until his death in 1989.
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These Collected Poems of Samuel Beckett is part of a landmark publishing project to publish edited and corrected texts of all of Beckett”s works.
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