The Selected Witter Bynner: Poems, Plays, Translations, Prose, and Letters"A remarkably long and varied literary career is represented in this collection. Witter Bynner (1881-1968) published more than twenty books, but for various reasons his accomplishments have been overlooked and undervalued." "Bynner is perhaps best known for his translations of Chinese literature. These are represented in Kraft's anthology along with selections from Bynner's influential translation of Euripides' Iphigenia in Tauris, his own plays, and especially his varied verse, including the poems that he and his friend Arthur Davison Ficke published under the names of Emanuel Morgan and Anne Knish as "Spectrist" verse. Among the prose included here are essays on subjects ranging from Henry James to Pueblo Indian ceremonial life. Bynner numbered among his broad range of friends and acquaintances individuals as diverse as Igor Stravinsky and Cecil B. DeMille, D. H. Lawrence and Khalil Gibran, and his witty letters to and about these people make delightful reading."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved |
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A. E. Housman Alice Corbin American ANNABEL Arthur Davison Ficke Arthur Waley asked beauty called Chapala China Chinese poetry critic D. H. Lawrence dance dead dream earth editor Edna English eyes Ezra Ezra Pound face fact feel Frieda Genji give hand Haniel Harvard heart Indian Isadora Jade Mountain Kiang Kang-hu Knopf LADY Laotzu later leave letter living look Luhan lyric Mabel Mabel Dodge Luhan magazine McClure Mexican Mexico Millay moon never night once perhaps play poems Pound published Pueblo rain remember Robert Hunt S. S. McClure Santa Fe Spectra Spectric spirit Taos tell There's thing thought Tiger told touch translation University verse Vincent Millay voice Waley watch WB's wife wind wish Witter Bynner women wonder words writing written wrote York young
References to this book
Literary Pilgrims: The Santa Fe and Taos Writers' Colonies, 1917-1950 Lynn Cline Limited preview - 2007 |