Overview
Both stimulating and engaging, these poems display an astonishing capacity for wit, rich observations, and the cadences of poetic language. Documenting the life of Sylvia Townsend Warner, these poems emphasize her gift for music while exploring life, communist sympathies, and above all, the anguish and liberation of her great love affair with fellow poet Valentine Ackland.Author Biography
Sylvia Townsend Warner is the author of The Corner That Held Them and The Nature of the Moment and has translated Proust’s Contre Saint-Beuve into English. Claire Harman is the author of biographies of Fanny Burney, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Sylvia Townsend Warner and is the editor of a version of Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Stories.
