A Very Pleasant Evening with Stevie Smith

A Very Pleasant Evening with Stevie Smith
Author: Stevie Smith
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Total Pages: 100
Release: 1995
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780811212953

A great poet and novelist (Novel on Yellow Paper), Stevie Smith also wrote delightful short prose. And here, in A Very Pleasant Evening with Stevie Smith, is the very best of it: eight stories and four essays mixing throw-away charm and deadly sophistication. Her stories delight and surprise; her essays defend favorite subjects, such as cats and the suburbs. "Life in the suburbs is richer at the lower levels. At these levels people are not self-conscious at all, they are at liberty to be as eccentric as they please, they do not know they are eccentric".

All the Poems: Stevie Smith

All the Poems: Stevie Smith
Author: Stevie Smith
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Total Pages: 847
Release: 2022-03-15
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0811223817

The essential edition of one of modern poetry’s most distinctive voices: all Stevie Smith’s flabbergasting poems, now in paperback Stevie Smith is among the most popular British poets of the twentieth century. Her poem “Not Waving but Drowning” has been widely anthologized, and her life was celebrated in the classic movie Stevie. This new and updated edition includes hundreds of works from her thirty-five-year career. In addition to the poems and illustrations from all her published volumes, the Smith scholar Will May discovered never-before-published verses and provides fascinating details about their provenance. Satirical, mischievous, teasing, disarming, Stevie Smith’s poems take readers from comedy to tragedy and back again, while her line drawings are by turns unsettling and beguiling.

Stevie Smith and Authorship

Stevie Smith and Authorship
Author: William May
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2010-08-12
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0199583374

`The most useful critical guide to the Movement that has appeared in recent years' Alan Brownjohn, Literary Review --

Some are More Human Than Others

Some are More Human Than Others
Author: Stevie Smith
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Total Pages: 100
Release: 1989
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780811211109

The British poet Stevie Smith, as her many readers well know, sprinkled her drawings throughout her poetry collections. In this sketchbook, Some Are More Human Than Others, she did the opposite--she spiced her drawings with words. Together they resound with what Robert Lowell described as Smith's "unique and cheerfully gruesome voice" and open up a little world of peculiar experience: something somber and something gay, innocent and cruel--truths of our world trapped off guard.

Stevie Smith's Resistant Antics

Stevie Smith's Resistant Antics
Author: Laura Severin
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Total Pages: 178
Release: 1997
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780299152949

The author explores the connections between Smiths work and mass media production; twentieth-century historical events; her romantic and Victorian predecessors; and such contemporaries as Virginia Woolf, Dorothy Parker, Aldous Huxley, and Evelyn Waugh. By presenting Smith in the cultural milieu surrounding World War II, Severin illuminates the still dark period of British womens writing from 1930 to 1960. Focusing on the complete works of Stevie Smith, Severin suggests that Smiths boundary-crossing art forms, which transgress genres and even media, represent an attempt to undo the coherence of femininity as defined in the conservative period of World War II.

Novel on Yellow Paper

Novel on Yellow Paper
Author: Stevie Smith
Publisher: Virago Press
Total Pages: 252
Release: 1980
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780860681465

Stevie's alter ego Pompey is young, in love and working as a secretary for the magnificent Sir Phoebus Ullwater, Bt. In between making coffee and typing letters for Sir Phoebus, Pompey scribbles down - on yellow office paper - her quirky thoughts. Her flights of imagination take in Euripedes, sex education, Nazi Germany and the Catholic Church in England, shattering conventions in their wake.

A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur

A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur
Author: Tennessee Williams
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Total Pages: 100
Release: 1980
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780811207577

In this masterful play, Tennessee Williams explores the meaning of loneliness and the need for human connection through the lens of four women and the designs and desires they harbor--for themselves and for each other.

The Cosmological Eye

The Cosmological Eye
Author: Henry Miller
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Total Pages: 390
Release: 1973
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780811201100

A collection of prose by Henry Miller

Confucius

Confucius
Author:
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Total Pages: 296
Release: 1969
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780811201544

Translation of Ta hseueh, Chung yung, and Lun yeu, with original stone texts from rubbings of the first two works.