Jaccottet Philippe - Seedtime Notebooks 1954 79 - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: The first volume of notes and reflections from one of Switzerland's most prominent and prolific men of letters. Seedtime Jaccottet's notebooks is an especially good introduction to this leading francophone Swiss author containing the poet's observations of the natural world and his reflections on literature art music and the human condition. In these explorations he returns again and again to the fundamental focusing his prodigious talents on describing the exact shade of light on a meadow the sound of running water the color of cherry and almond blossoms or the cry of a bird in the stillness before dawn. In this translation by Tess Lewis English readers will finally be able to join this poet as we follow in his footsteps of fifty years ago and find the still - viable seeds of his delicate and tenacious verse.
Title: Seedtime Notebooks 1954 79
Author(s): Jaccottet Philippe
Publisher: Seagull Books London Ltd
Barcode: 9781803093598
Pages: 374 Pages
Publication Date: 3/7/2024
Series: The Seagull Library of French Literature
Category: Literature: History & Criticism