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YVES BONNEFOY: THE ARRIERE-PAYS
2012réf. C104350London: Seagull Books 2012. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. Hardcover Hardcover. Fine. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo.pp. 219. Original publishers cloth binding in black lettered gilt at spine. Dust jacket features a detail from Piero della Francesca's The Baptism of Christ circa 1442. Black endpapers. Illustrations in colour and black and white. ISBN:9780857420268./Provenance: From the Collection of Clive Wilmer 1945-2025. Clive Wilmer read English at King's College Cambridge and was Emeritus Fellow of English at Sidney Sussex College. His chief academicÊinterests lay in the fields of Victorian and Modernist poetry as well as in Victorian aesthetics and social criticism. He wrote and lectured extensively on both John Ruskin and William Morris. From 2009 to 2019 he was the Master of The Guild of St. George the charity for arts crafts and the rural economy founded by Ruskin in 1871. In 2023 he was presented with the annual Lifetime Achievement Award of the Ruskin Society of North America. He was the author of nine books of his own poetry and in collaboration with the Hungarian poet and critic George Gmri he published many translations of Hungarian poetry. He contributed poems and articles to a wide range of newspapers and periodicals including the ""Times Literary Supplement"" ""PN Review"" and ""The London Magazine"". From 1989-91 he was chief presenter for the series ""Poet of the Month"" on Radio 3 and also presented and organized many lectures and conferences/symposia in Britain and overseas. Most recently he was involved in editing the works of the poet Thom Gunn. Fine in fine dust jacket. Seagull Books hardcover
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