Collected Poems of Samuel Beckett - Softcover

Beckett, Samuel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 057124985X ISBN 13: 9780571249855

Publisher: Faber & Faber, 2013

Synopsis

It was as a poet that Samuel Beckett launched himself in the little reviews of 1930s Paris, and as a poet that he ended his career.

The Collected Poems is the most complete edition of Beckett's poetry and verse translations ever to be published, as well as the first critical edition. It establishes a significant new canon, and the commentary draws on a wide range of published sources, manuscripts and Beckett's extensive correspondence.

The notes place each poem in context, detailing the history and circumstances of its composition; they indicate significant variants and help explain obscure turns of phrase and allusions (frequently sourced to Beckett's notebooks); they also identify resonances between poems and across Beckett's work as a whole. The commentary is written in a lively and engaging style and is intended equally for the general reader, the student of modernism and the Beckett specialist.

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Review:

Praise for "Collected Poems"

"Collecting so many poems into a single volume makes it much easier to trace the patterns that are worked into Beckett's imaginative DNA. . . . For anyone interested in the evolution of his plays, Beckett's poems are essential reading. . . . Above all, we are given a bird's-eye view of the process by which he made meaningful patterns out of his 'wordshed'." --"Telegraph"

"[An] admirable, annotated scholarly edition. . . . Treasurable." --"The London Evening Standard"

"The voice we hear exemplifies the stoic injunction 'Fail again. Fail better' . . . but, more than that, it shows how beauty can be won from a vision as bleak as any other to be found in world literature." --"New Statesman"

"[A] sumptuously annotated edition. . . . Beckett's poetic successes, in any genre, are matters of musical cadence, of the rich interplay of sounds: they obey the Imagist prescription to compose in the rhythm of the musical phrase, not in that of the metronome. . . . Beckett's poems trace in miniature his lifelong inability, despite his best efforts, to keep silent." --"The New Criterion"

"Like [Beckett's] prose, with which they have so much in common, the poems are instantly striking and mysteriously persistent in the mind and even the nerves." --Derek Mahon

Praise for "Collected Poems"
"Collecting so many poems into a single volume makes it much easier to trace the patterns that are worked into Beckett's imaginative DNA. . . . For anyone interested in the evolution of his plays, Beckett's poems are essential reading. . . . Above all, we are given a bird's-eye view of the process by which he made meaningful patterns out of his 'wordshed'." --"Telegraph"
"[An] admirable, annotated scholarly edition. . . . Treasurable." --"The London Evening Standard"
"The voice we hear exemplifies the stoic injunction 'Fail again. Fail better' . . . but, more than that, it shows how beauty can be won from a vision as bleak as any other to be found in world literature." --"New Statesman"
"[A] sumptuously annotated edition. . . . Beckett's poetic successes, in any genre, are matters of musical cadence, of the rich interplay of sounds: they obey the Imagist prescription to compose in the rhythm of the musical phrase, not in that of the metronome. . . . Beckett's poems trace in miniature his lifelong inability, despite his best efforts, to keep silent." --"The New Criterion"
"Peculiar magic [and] genius imbues even the slightest lines." --"Times Literary Supplement"
"Toweringly important . . . funny and bleak and overflowing with laughter in the dark and melancholy joy. Featuring copious notes and a buzzing introduction, this is a work of dazzling, still-fresh brilliance." --Stuart Hammond
"Like [Beckett's] prose, with which they have so much in common, the poems are instantly striking and mysteriously persistent in the mind and even the nerves." --Derek Mahon

Praise for "Collected Poems"
"A totalizing project . . . one that, perhaps more realistically than his collected novels or dramas, opens the iris of history onto the great writer s formal development." Flavorwire
"Collecting so many poems into a single volume makes it much easier to trace the patterns that are worked into Beckett s imaginative DNA. . . . For anyone interested in the evolution of his plays, Beckett s poems are essential reading. . . . Above all, we are given a bird s-eye view of the process by which he made meaningful patterns out of his wordshed ." "Telegraph"
"[An] admirable, annotated scholarly edition. . . . Treasurable." "The London Evening Standard"
"The voice we hear exemplifies the stoic injunction Fail again. Fail better . . . but, more than that, it shows how beauty can be won from a vision as bleak as any other to be found in world literature." "New Statesman"
"[A] sumptuously annotated edition. . . . Beckett s poetic successes, in any genre, are matters of musical cadence, of the rich interplay of sounds: they obey the Imagist prescription to compose in the rhythm of the musical phrase, not in that of the metronome. . . . Beckett s poems trace in miniature his lifelong inability, despite his best efforts, to keep silent." "The New Criterion"
"Peculiar magic [and] genius imbues even the slightest lines." "Times Literary Supplement"
"Toweringly important . . . funny and bleak and overflowing with laughter in the dark and melancholy joy. Featuring copious notes and a buzzing introduction, this is a work of dazzling, still-fresh brilliance." Stuart Hammond
"Like [Beckett s] prose, with which they have so much in common, the poems are instantly striking and mysteriously persistent in the mind and even the nerves." Derek Mahon"

Praise for Collected Poems

"A totalizing project . . . one that, perhaps more realistically than his collected novels or dramas, opens the iris of history onto the great writer's formal development." --Flavorwire

"Collecting so many poems into a single volume makes it much easier to trace the patterns that are worked into Beckett's imaginative DNA. . . . For anyone interested in the evolution of his plays, Beckett's poems are essential reading. . . . Above all, we are given a bird's-eye view of the process by which he made meaningful patterns out of his 'wordshed'." --Telegraph

"[An] admirable, annotated scholarly edition. . . . Treasurable." --The London Evening Standard

"The voice we hear exemplifies the stoic injunction 'Fail again. Fail better' . . . but, more than that, it shows how beauty can be won from a vision as bleak as any other to be found in world literature." --New Statesman

"[A] sumptuously annotated edition. . . . Beckett's poetic successes, in any genre, are matters of musical cadence, of the rich interplay of sounds: they obey the Imagist prescription to compose in the rhythm of the musical phrase, not in that of the metronome. . . . Beckett's poems trace in miniature his lifelong inability, despite his best efforts, to keep silent." --The New Criterion

"Peculiar magic [and] genius imbues even the slightest lines." --Times Literary Supplement

"Toweringly important . . . funny and bleak and overflowing with laughter in the dark and melancholy joy. Featuring copious notes and a buzzing introduction, this is a work of dazzling, still-fresh brilliance." --Stuart Hammond

"Like [Beckett's] prose, with which they have so much in common, the poems are instantly striking and mysteriously persistent in the mind and even the nerves." --Derek Mahon

Book Description:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 057124985X
• ISBN 13: 9780571249855
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 528