{"product_id":"april-twilights-1903-paperback-softback-9781496216649","title":"April Twilights (1903) (Paperback \/ softback) 9781496216649","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eApril Twilights (1903)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eWilla Cather (Author), Bernice Slote (Edited by), Robert Thacker (Introduction by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781496216649\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 November 2019\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e150 pages, 2 photographs, 1 illustration, 1 appendix\u003cbr\u003e21 x 14 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e“[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\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"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.\"—\u003ci\u003eBooks Abroad\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eBefore Willa Cather turned primarily to the fiction that made her reputation, she produced striking poems that were collected in \u003ci\u003eApril Twilights\u003c\/i\u003e. It was her literary debut, preceding the publication of \u003ci\u003eO Pioneers!\u003c\/i\u003e by nine years. In her introduction distinguished Cather scholar Bernice Slote notes that this edition of \u003ci\u003eApril Twilights\u003c\/i\u003e restores what had been “an almost lost, certainly blurred, portion of the creative life of a great novelist.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Among the thirty-seven selections are the much-anthologized “Grandmither, Think Not I Forget” and the highly evocative “Prairie Dawn.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This printing includes a new introduction by Robert Thacker that provides new insights into Cather and her poetry.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eIntroduction by Robert Thacker\u003cbr\u003e Preface to the Revised Edition\u003cbr\u003e Willa Cather and Her First Book\u003cbr\u003e Dedicatory\u003cbr\u003e \"\u003cbr\u003eGrandmither, Think Not I Forget\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In Rose Time\u003cbr\u003e Asphodel\u003cbr\u003e Mills of Montmartre\u003cbr\u003e Arcadian Winter\u003cbr\u003e The Hawthorne Tree\u003cbr\u003e Sleep, Minstrel, Sleep\u003cbr\u003e Fides, Spes\u003cbr\u003e The Tavern\u003cbr\u003e In Media Vita\u003cbr\u003e Antinous\u003cbr\u003e Paradox\u003cbr\u003e ProvenÇ\u003cbr\u003eal Legend\u003cbr\u003e Winter at Delphi\u003cbr\u003e On Cydnus\u003cbr\u003e The Namesake\u003cbr\u003e Lament for Marsyas\u003cbr\u003e White Birch in Wyoming\u003cbr\u003e I Sought the Wood in Winter\u003cbr\u003e Evening Song\u003cbr\u003e Eurydice\u003cbr\u003e The Encore\u003cbr\u003e London Roses\u003cbr\u003e The Night Express\u003cbr\u003e Prairie Dawn\u003cbr\u003e Aftermath\u003cbr\u003e Thine Advocate\u003cbr\u003e Poppies on Ludlow Castle\u003cbr\u003e Sonnet\u003cbr\u003e Thou Art the Pearl\u003cbr\u003e From the Valley\u003cbr\u003e I Have No House for Love to Shelter Him\u003cbr\u003e The Poor Minstrel\u003cbr\u003e Paris\u003cbr\u003e Song\u003cbr\u003e L'Envoi\u003cbr\u003e Notes of the Poems of \u003ci\u003eApril Twilights\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Appendix: Other Versus\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52599898571032,"sku":"9781496216649","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/april-twilights-1903-paperback-softback-9781496216649","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}