Elected Friends
Robert Frost and Edward Thomas: To One Another
$24.65
- Paperback
258 pages
- Release Date
21 August 2012
Summary
Robert Frost and Edward Thomas met in a bookshop in London in 1913. During the next four years, the two writers-Frost, an unknown poet who had sold his farm in New Hampshire in order to take his family to England for one last gamble on poetry and Thomas, a sad literary journalist-formed the most important friendship between poets since that of Wordsworth and Coleridge. Their friendship only ended with Thomas’ death in Arras, France, a casualty of the First World War.The story of Edward…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781590515969 |
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| ISBN-10: | 159051596X |
| Author: | Matthew Spencer, Michael Hoffman, Christopher Ricks |
| Publisher: | Other Press LLC |
| Imprint: | Other Press LLC |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 258 |
| Release Date: | 21 August 2012 |
| Weight: | 295g |
| Dimensions: | 218mm x 140mm x 15mm |
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About The Author
Matthew Spencer
Matthew SpencerMatthew Spencer is currently working towards a master’s degree in Editorial Studies at Boston University’s Editorial Institute. He earned his bachelor’s degree in literature from Boston University in 2002.Michael HofmannMichael Hofmann has translated Bertolt Brecht, Joseph Roth, Patrick S, Herta Mueller, and Franz Kafka. He won the Translators’ Association’s Schlegel-Tieck Prize twice in 1988 for his adaptation of The Double Bass by Patrick S (1987), and in 1993 for his rendering of Wolfgang Koeppen’s Death in Rome (1992). In 1999 he won the PEN/Book of the Month Club Translation Prize for The String of Pearls. His translation of his father’s novel The Film Explainer, by Gert Hofmann, won the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 1995. He has written and translated more than 35 books, winning eight awards for his translations and his poetry.
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