Letter to a Young Poet

Name: Letter to a Young Poet
Brand: Virginia Woolf
SKU: 9781804471203
Price: 4.88 GBP
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by Virginia Woolf

Title:

Author:

Virginia Woolf

Format:

Paperback

Number of pages:

48 pages

Publisher:

Renard Press Ltd

ISBN-13:

9781804471203

EAN:

9781804471203

Publication Date:

02/11/2024

Classifications:

Literature: history and criticism

Weight (g):

170

Dimensions (mm):

112 x 178 x 5

Publication Country:

United Kingdom

Language:

English

Condition:

New

Price:£4.88

5 copies in stock

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Description

‘So long as you and you and you, venerable and ancient representatives of Sappho, Shakespeare and Shelley, are aged precisely twenty-three and propose… to spend the next fifty years of your lives in writing poetry, I refuse to think that the art is dead.’Penned in response to a letter about her novel The Waves from a young poet, John Lehmann, A Letter to a Young Poet answers a request for Woolf to set down her views on modern poetry.Written with observational humour and empathy, the letter leaves the reader laughing in recognition of the errors depicted, with the words ‘And for heaven’s sake, publish nothing before you are thirty’ ringing in their ears.