Selected
Prose, 1934-1996
By Gascoyne, David
1999/03 - Dufour Editions
1900564017 - Hardcover
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Gascoyne was the link between the French Surrealists and John Bull's
island. This collection of more than 70 essays, critical pieces,
biographical sketches and memoirs includes essays on Carlyle, Patchen,
and Novalis, memoirs on Dal and Durrell, reviews of Miller, Ferlinghetti,
and Watkins, and a number of pieces on Surrealism
Table of Contents
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Select Bibliography |
5 |
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Acknowledgements |
10 |
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Preface |
11 |
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Introduction |
14 |
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Statements on Poetry/the Poet's Mission |
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The Future of the Lyric Imagination |
25 |
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A Kind of Declaration |
35 |
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Departures |
44 |
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David Gascoyne in Interview |
47 |
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Responses to Questionnaires |
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Answers to 'An Enquiry' |
54 |
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Authors Take Sides on the Spanish Civil
War |
56 |
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A Comment on Auden |
57 |
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Authors Take Sides on the Falklands |
58 |
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On the State of Poetry |
63 |
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Essays |
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French Poetry of Today |
71 |
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Poetry and Reality |
74 |
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Note on Symbolism |
77 |
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Leon Chestov |
79 |
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Thomas Carlyle |
94 |
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A New Poem by Pierre Jean Jouve:
'Language' |
115 |
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The Sun at Midnight |
119 |
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My Indebtedness to Jouve |
125 |
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The Poet and the City |
126 |
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Meetings with Benjamin Fondane |
133 |
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The Most Astonishing Book in the
English Language |
140 |
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Introductions and Prefaces |
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Friedrich Holderlin |
155 |
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Poets of Tomorrow |
163 |
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Kenneth Patchen |
164 |
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A Little Anthology of Existentialist
Thought |
171 |
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Benjamin Fondane |
174 |
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T. S. Eliot |
182 |
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Roland Penrose |
186 |
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Benjamin Peret |
189 |
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Novalis and the Night |
199 |
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Elizabeth Smart |
207 |
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Memoirs and Obituaries |
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Self Discharged |
215 |
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David Wright |
228 |
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Antonia White |
232 |
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Tambimuttu |
237 |
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Geoffrey Grigson |
240 |
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Edgar Morin |
245 |
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S. W. Hayter |
250 |
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Julian Trevelyan |
252 |
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Salvador Dali |
254 |
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Eileen Agar |
259 |
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PL Editions and Graham Sutherland |
263 |
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Lawrence Durrell |
270 |
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George Barker |
274 |
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Reviews |
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Some Recent Art Exhibitions |
285 |
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Henry Miller |
287 |
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F. T. Prince |
290 |
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Denis Roche |
294 |
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Marcel Jouhandeau |
299 |
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Angelos Sikelianos |
306 |
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Jeremy Reed |
315 |
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Julien Green |
318 |
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Vincent van Gogh |
323 |
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti |
326 |
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Humphrey Jennings |
332 |
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John Cornford / Christopher Caudwell |
337 |
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Pierre Jean Jouve |
343 |
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Vernon Watkins |
349 |
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Writings Relating to Surrealism |
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Paul Eluard |
355 |
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Paul Eluard / Hugh Sykes Davies |
356 |
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Two Surrealist Film Scenarios:
Procession to the Private Sector |
357 |
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Two Surrealist Film Scenarios: History
of the Womb or Nine Months' Horror |
373 |
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Louis Aragon |
376 |
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Rene Char |
381 |
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Andre Breton and Philippe Soupault |
386 |
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Archives du Surrealisme |
399 |
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Francis Picabia |
404 |
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Gala Eluard |
427 |
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Leonora Carrington |
431 |
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Max Ernst / Man Ray |
436 |
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Andre Breton |
446 |
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Additional Uncollected Writings |
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Blind Man's Buff |
457 |
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Chorus |
460 |
