W. H. Davies: Essays on the Super-Tramp Poet

Author:   Rory Waterman
Publisher:   Anthem Press
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9781785274565


Pages:   194
Publication Date:   15 January 2021
Format:   Hardback
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W. H. Davies: Essays on the Super-Tramp Poet


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Though Davies is a well-known and unique literary figure of the early twentieth century, most famous now for The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp and poems such as ‘Leisure’, which came 14th in the BBC’s search to find ‘The Nation’s Favourite Poems’, no other volume of essays, or other critical monograph, concentrates on his work. This book not only provides a reassessment of Davies, putting him in his literary and cultural context, but also sheds light on the many more central literary figures he encountered and befriended. The central aim of the book is to reconsider his major works and his place in the literary and cultural milieu of his period.

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Author:   Rory Waterman
Publisher:   Anthem Press
Imprint:   Anthem Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.30cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9781785274565


ISBN 10:   1785274562
Pages:   194
Publication Date:   15 January 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction; 1. The Soul's Destroyer (1905): a reassessment; 2. The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp and its enduring popularity/travel memoir; 3. Supertramps and Beggars: Davies and Begging in America in the 1890s and 1900s; 4. The novels and drama of W. H. Davies; 5. Davies, print media, journalism and criticism; 6. Davies and Georgian Poetry; 7.'Stop and stare': Davies and 'nature poetry'; 8. Davies: a Welsh writer?; 9. Davies, society and gender; 10. Davies and Literary London; 11. Super-Tramp and Little Tramp: Davies, Chaplin and the landscapes of modernity; 12. Davies and Edward Thomas: literary and personal influences; 13. 'Poisoned earth and sky': Representations of War in Davies' poetry and memoir; Index.

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Rory Waterman is a critic and poet, and Senior Lecturer in English at Nottingham Trent University.

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