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    April Twilights (1903)

    Willa Cather (Author), Bernice Slote (Edited by), Robert Thacker (Introduction by)

    9781496216649

    Paperback / softback, published 1 November 2019

    150 pages, 2 photographs, 1 illustration, 1 appendix
    21 x 14 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg

    “[In these poems] Cather’s . . . tone is elegiac or rueful, but her emotions are real. Her own life goes on; as poet she looks forward toward all the books she will write on her own perilous voyage, but gazing as she was from the nineteenth century into the twentieth, Cather stood at the Modernist crux. She knew poetry and valued it, but she also knew that her books were to take the form of fiction written in a striking, allusive, and poetic prose.”-from Robert Thacker’s introduction
     
    "Professor Slote's introduction, which considers events leading to the poems, critically analyzes them and then brilliantly relates them to Willa Cather's fictional themes and techniques."—Books Abroad

    Before Willa Cather turned primarily to the fiction that made her reputation, she produced striking poems that were collected in April Twilights. It was her literary debut, preceding the publication of O Pioneers! by nine years. In her introduction distinguished Cather scholar Bernice Slote notes that this edition of April Twilights restores what had been “an almost lost, certainly blurred, portion of the creative life of a great novelist.”

    Among the thirty-seven selections are the much-anthologized “Grandmither, Think Not I Forget” and the highly evocative “Prairie Dawn.”

    This printing includes a new introduction by Robert Thacker that provides new insights into Cather and her poetry.

     
     

    Introduction by Robert Thacker
    Preface to the Revised Edition
    Willa Cather and Her First Book
    Dedicatory
    "
    Grandmither, Think Not I Forget"

    In Rose Time
    Asphodel
    Mills of Montmartre
    Arcadian Winter
    The Hawthorne Tree
    Sleep, Minstrel, Sleep
    Fides, Spes
    The Tavern
    In Media Vita
    Antinous
    Paradox
    ProvenÇ
    al Legend
    Winter at Delphi
    On Cydnus
    The Namesake
    Lament for Marsyas
    White Birch in Wyoming
    I Sought the Wood in Winter
    Evening Song
    Eurydice
    The Encore
    London Roses
    The Night Express
    Prairie Dawn
    Aftermath
    Thine Advocate
    Poppies on Ludlow Castle
    Sonnet
    Thou Art the Pearl
    From the Valley
    I Have No House for Love to Shelter Him
    The Poor Minstrel
    Paris
    Song
    L'Envoi
    Notes of the Poems of April Twilights
    Appendix: Other Versus
    Bibliography
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