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Published: 1st November 2003Aristocrat, novelist, essayist, traveler, and lover of Virginia Woolf, Vita Sackville-West lived a fascinating and daring life on the periphery of the Bloomsbury circle. She wrote in an astounding variety of genres, including travel narrative, historical and literary studies, poetry, fiction, and essays, and is probably best known or her novels, The Edwardians and All Passion Spent, and incomparable writings about English country houses and gardens. Here, for the first time, is an anthology that represents the full expanse of her interests and styles. Over half of the works, including intimate diaries and a dream notebook, have never been published. Edited by a foremost expert on the Bloomsbury circle, "Vita Sackville-West: Selected Writings" provides the best and most accessible introduction to this unique writer.
'This lightly annotated volume of selected writings...is intended to acquaint the contemporary reader with the range of Sackville-West's literary talents.' - Publishers Weekly '...a complex and compelling portrait of Sackville-West emerges...' - J.E. Steiner, Choice 'Caws sees the interesting contradictions in Vita's life and writing - at once nonconformist and traditional, 'adventuresome' and reclusive, sexually faithless and maritally loyal, unconventional and immensley snobbish.' - Hermione Lee, The Guardian
| Acknowledgements | p. xi |
| Foreword | p. xiii |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Diaries | |
| Selections from Victoria Sackville-West Diaries, 1902-1905 and 1922 | p. 19 |
| Selections from Vita Sackville-West Diaries, 1907-1929 | p. 24 |
| Memoirs and Dreams | |
| Beginnings | p. 53 |
| Thirty Clocks Strike the Hour | p. 57 |
| Vita's Dream Book | p. 61 |
| Letters (1920 1927) | |
| Family Letters: From Their Sons | p. 75 |
| Vita and Harold | p. 77 |
| Vita and Virginia | p. 85 |
| Travel Writing | |
| Italian Journey with Dorothy Wellesley (1921) | p. 99 |
| Selections from Passenger to Teheran (1926) | p. 105 |
| Selections from Twelve Days (1928) | p. 125 |
| Journal of Travel to France with Virginia Woolf (1928) | p. 143 |
| Lecture Travel Diary (January to March 1933) | p. 146 |
| Critical Writing | |
| Lecture on Modern English Poetry (1928) | p. 169 |
| From Andrew Marvell (1929) | p. 177 |
| A Note on Thieves' Cant (1947) | p. 181 |
| House, Gardening, and Nature | |
| From Knole and the Sackvilles (1922, 1947) | p. 185 |
| From Country Notes (1939-40) | p. 195 |
| From A Joy of Gardening (1958) | p. 211 |
| Stories | |
| "The Engagement" (1930) | p. 219 |
| "The Poet" (1930) | p. 222 |
| "The Poetry Reading" | p. 229 |
| Novels | |
| From Challenge (1924) | p. 239 |
| Seducers in Ecuador (1924) | p. 278 |
| From All Passion Spent (1931) | p. 308 |
| Poems | |
| Travel Poems | p. 321 |
| "The Muezzin" (Constantinople, 1913) | p. 322 |
| "A Bowl of Blue Beads" (1928) | p. 322 |
| "Persia" (1928) | p. 323 |
| "Nostalgia" (1932) | p. 323 |
| "Palmyra" (1927) | p. 324 |
| "Storm in the Mountains" (Savoy, 1929) | p. 324 |
| "Middleton Place, South Carolina" (1933) | p. 325 |
| Other Poems | p. 327 |
| "Winter Afternoon" | p. 327 |
| "The Intellectual to His Puppy" | p. 329 |
| "The Puppy to His New Owner" | p. 330 |
| "In Memoriam: Virginia Woolf" | p. 330 |
| Poems of House, Land, and Seasons | p. 331 |
| "Sissinghurst" (1930) | p. 331 |
| "Autumn" from The Garden (1946) | p. 333 |
| Poems of Provence | p. 339 |
| "The Quarryman: Les Baux" (1931) | p. 340 |
| "The Temple of Love: Les Baux" (1931) | p. 341 |
| "Dawn: Les Baux" (1931) | p. 341 |
| Animal Reflections | |
| From Faces (1961) | p. 345 |
| Summary of Works Not Excerpted | |
| Aphra Behn | p. 351 |
| The Edwardians | p. 352 |
| Family History | p. 352 |
| Dark Island | p. 353 |
| St. Joan of Arc | p. 354 |
| Grand Canyon | p. 354 |
| The Easter Party | p. 355 |
| Daughter of France | p. 356 |
| No Signposts in the Sea | p. 357 |
| Notes | p. 359 |
| Bibliography | p. 363 |
| Works | p. 365 |
| Index | p. 367 |
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ISBN: 9780312237608
ISBN-10: 031223760X
Series: St Martins Press
Audience:
Professional
Format:
Hardcover
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 400
Published: 1st June 2002
Publisher: St Martin's Press
Country of Publication: US
Dimensions (cm): 24.0 x 16.3
x 2.8
Weight (kg): 0.73
Edition Number: 1
