Understand the Weapon, Understand the Wound: Collected Writings - Couverture souple

Cornford, John

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1784102482 ISBN 13 : 9781784102487

Editeur : Fyfield Books, 2016

Synopsis

Understand the weapon, understand the wound:What shapeless past was hammered to action by his deeds,Only in constant action was his constant certainty found.He will throw a longer shadow as time recedes.from 'Sergei Mironovitch Kirov'John Cornford (1915-1936) has long been held in high estimation as the outstanding English writer who fell to the Fascists in Spain. This collection of writings from Cornford's thirteenth to his twenty-first year, when he died of wounds received in action, is a revealing autobiography, showing the sources of his political and literary commitments. In this authoritative survey of Cornford's poems, essays and letters, Jonathan Galassi gives access to material not available elsewhere; his introduction and notes, together with two new afterwords by Jane Bernal and Richard Baxell, situate the work in its political and personal contexts. As Galassi suggests in his introduction, the republication of Cornford's writings eighty years after his death 'celebrates the gem-like intensity of one young man's prodigious desire and need to change the world.'

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Rupert John Cornford (1915 - 1936) was an English poet, communist and Charles Darwin's great-grandson. He was a member of the International Brigades and died while fighting fascism during the Spanish Civil War. Born in Cambridge, Cornford was educated at Stowe School and Trinity College. As an undergraduate he joined the Communist Party of Great Britain and from 1933 was directly involved in Communist Party work in London. At the start of the Spanish Civil War he briefly served with the POUM militia and then with a machine-gun unit of the Commune de Paris Battalion, and fought in defence of Madrid. He was killed in uncertain circumstances at Lopera, near Cordoba in 1936. A memorial volume to Cornford was published in 1938. Jonathan Galassi born in Seattle, is the President and Publisher of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, one of the eight major publishers in New York. He is a translator and poet and his honours include a 1989 Guggenheim Fellowship and being an honorary chairman of the Academy of American Poets.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Fyfield Books
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1784102482
• ISBN 13: 9781784102487
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 204
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