Zoo 【電子書籍】[ Louis MacNeice ]

＜p＞＜em＞'I go the zoo half because I like looking at the animals and half because I like looking at the people... The pleasure of dappled things, the beauty of adaptation to purpose, the glory of extravagance, classic elegance or romantic nonsense and grotesquerie - all these we get from the Zoo.'＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞In 1938 Louis MacNeice published his second collection of poems with Faber; his 'personal essay' ＜em＞Modern Poetry＜/em＞ for OUP; and ＜em＞Zoo＜/em＞, a prose commission from Michael Joseph to write an impressionistic 'guide' to the London Zoo in Regents Park. Envisioned as a breezy assignment MacNeice's ＜em＞Zoo＜/em＞ inevitably became a richer endeavour, taking in side-trips to Paris and Belfast. ＜em＞Zoo＜/em＞ also benefited from illustrations by the painter Nancy Sharp, with whom MacNeice had begun an affair after moving to London in 1936.＜/p＞ ＜p＞This Faber Finds edition returns to circulation a delightful rarity by one of the twentieth century's most brilliant poets.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、し．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る