The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp |
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Author:
| Davies, W. H. |
Preface by:
| Shaw, George Bernard |
ISBN: | 978-1-61219-022-8 |
Publication Date: | Jan 2012 |
Publisher: | Melville House Publishing
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | AUD $24.99 |
Book Description:
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A Welsh tramp who became a popular poet acclaimed by conservative Georgians and vanguard Ezra Pound alike, W.H. Davies surprised contemporaries with the unlikeliest portrait of the artist as a young man ever written. Praised by Osbert Sitwell for 'primitive splendour and directness,' Davies evokes the beauty and frontier violence of turn-of-the-century America in prose George Bernard Shaw commended.The insurgent wanderlust voice is expressed here with raucous exuberence.
A Welsh tramp who became a popular poet acclaimed by conservative Georgians and vanguard Ezra Pound alike, W.H. Davies surprised contemporaries with the unlikeliest portrait of the artist as a young man ever written. Praised by Osbert Sitwell for 'primitive splendour and directness,' Davies evokes the beauty and frontier violence of turn-of-the-century America in prose George Bernard Shaw commended.The insurgent wanderlust voice is expressed here with raucous exuberence.