Collected Poems: Hope Mirrlees
- 143 pages
- 6 hours of reading
This book brings a brilliant modernist back into the poetic limelight.
Hope Mirrlees Books
Hope Mirrlees was a British translator, poet, and novelist whose work spanned realism and imaginative fantasy. Her poetry, hailed as "modernism's lost masterpiece," delves into intricate human emotions and poetic landscapes. In her prose, she often explored the complexities of love and intellectual entanglements, employing a style noted for its subtlety and insight. Mirrlees left a distinctive mark on literature through her versatile command of genre and unique perspective.
Paris
- 72 pages
- 3 hours of reading
Centenary edition of 'modernism's lost masterpiece'.
Lud-in-the-mist
- 288 pages
- 11 hours of reading
The town of Lud is a prosperous, bustling little country port, situated at the confluence of two rivers: the Dawl and the Dapple. The latter, which has its source in the land of Faerie beyond the Elfin Marches and the Debatable Hills, is a source of great trial to Lud, which had long rejected such fanciful nonsense as fairies, elves and the like. Then a perfect plague of faerie influences hits the town, penetrating even to Miss Primrose Crabapple's Establishment for Young Ladies, and it becomes apparent to even the stuffiest burgher that Steps Would Have To Be Taken. Fortunately for everyone, Master Nathaniel Chanticleer, Mayor of Lud, is a man with his head firmly in the clouds ...
