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Leslie Norris

(Paperback)


Publishing Details

Full Title:

Leslie Norris

Contributors:

By (Author) James A Davies

ISBN:

9780708311172

Publisher:

University of Wales Press

Imprint:

University of Wales Press

Publication Date:

3rd September 1991

Country:

United Kingdom

Classifications

Readership:

Tertiary Education

Fiction/Non-fiction:

Non Fiction

Main Subject:
Other Subjects:

Literary studies: poetry and poets
Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000

Dewey:

821.914

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Paperback

Number of Pages:

114

Dimensions:

Width 211mm, Height 220mm

Description

This is a pioneering study of the life and work of the Welsh-born poet and short-story writer Leslie Norris. His life, from his Merthyr upbringing to lecturing in England to a distinguished university career in the USA, is examined in connection with his development as a writer. In his early days much influenced by Dylan Thomas, Wordsworth and others, he later found his own literary voice in beautifully crafted stories and poems and, in more recent years, spare, compressed poem-sequences which speak of the modern world with piercing and, at times, pessimistic force. This account corrects the mistaken perception of Norris as a misplaced Georgian and shows him to be a moving, complex, disconcerning and important modern writer.

Author Bio

Dr James A. Davies is the author of Leslie Norris and Dylan Thomas's Swansea, Gower and Laugharne.

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