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Coward Noel <1899-1973.>
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Titolo: |
The complete verse of Noël Coward / / edited and with a commentary, Barry Day
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Pubblicazione: | London : , : Methuen Drama, , [2011] |
©2011 | |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (744 p.) |
Disciplina: | 821.008 |
Soggetto topico: | English poetry |
Persona (resp. second.): | DayBarry |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di contenuto: | Cover; Title Page; Contents; Illustrations; Credits And Acknowledgements; Dedication; Introduction; 1. The Young Idea (1907-?1922); 'Vegetable Verse'; The Animal Kingdom; Romantic/Gothic; Nonsense Verse/Limerick; Scenes of Suburbia; 'Those Were the Days'; 2. 'Cod Pieces'; 'The Swiss Family Whittlebot' (Sketch - 1923); Early Whittlebot Poems; Poems by Hernia Whittlebot; Chelsea Buns (1925); Spangled Unicorn (1932); Reversion to the Formal; How Does Your Garden Grow; Hungry Land; Necromancy; Harlem; Ma People; Moss; Curve In Curve Out; Church of England; Sampan; The Emperor's Daughter |
The Voice in the Bamboo ShootEvery Day; Theatre Party; Harlot's Song; Picnic Near Toledo; 'Flamenco'; Torero; 'Deirdre'; 'The Whisht Paple'; 'Pastoral'; First Love; Freundschaft; 'Youth'; Legend; Sicilian Study; Richmond Boating Song; Old Things Are Far the Best; The Nursemaid; Sunburn; To Rudyard Kipling; Dawn; 3. 'Family . . . Friends . . . and Others'; 'Family' . . .; Violet Coward; Lorn Loraine; Joyce Carey; Jack Wilson; Kay Thompson/Graham Payn; Cole Lesley; Gladys Calthrop; 'Friends' . . .; Edwina Mountbatten; Hope Williams; 4. Words of War; Bread and Butter | |
5. Shall We Join the Ladies . . . ?Mary Baker Eddy; Marie Stopes; Ella Wheeler Wilcox; Beatrice Eden; 6. Indefinite Thoughts on the Infinite; 7. The Theatre: 'A Temple of Dreams'; The Boy Actor; Ode to Italia Conti; Concert Types; When Babsie Got the Bird; To Meg Titheradge; To Mary MacArthur; Irene Vanbrugh Memorial Matinée: The Epilogue; Tribute to Ivor Novello; 'Dearest Binkie, dearest Bink'; Thoughts on Beatrice Lillie; 'Darling Alfred, dainty Lynn'; I Resent Your Attitude to Mary; Tribute to Marlene Dietrich; Epitaph for an Elderly Actress; Critics; Words . . .; . . . and Music | |
. . . and a Literary Footnote8. 'I Travel Alone'; On Leaving England for the First Time; P&O 1930; Pleasure Cruise; Souvenir; Lines to a Fellow Passenger; The Little Men Who Travel Far; Malta; Go to Malta, Little Girl; Thoughts on Corsica; Venice; Oh Walter Dear; Bali; Bora Bora; Martinique; Oh Dear; The Quinta Bates (Aunt Bates); From One Chap to Another: A Complaint; Jeunesse Dorée; 9. 'If Love Were All'; This Is to Let You Know; I Knew You without Enchantment; I Am No Good at Love; 10. 'The Party'S Over Now'; When I Have Fears; I'm Here for a Short Visit Only; Footnote; Part 8; * | |
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Sommario/riassunto: | Three volumes of his verse were published in Coward's lifetime, but while The Complete Verse features all of the work from these three volumes it also presents previously unpublished material for the very first time. Coward expert Barry Day has collected together the additional verse which Coward sent to family and friends and which paints a vivid portrait of his more private life. For anyone who has enjoyed the Diaries or the Letters of Noel Coward , The Complete Verse offers further enjoyment and appreciation of Coward's wit, insatiable interest in people and skilful rendering of his public |
Titolo autorizzato: | The complete verse of Noël Coward ![]() |
ISBN: | 1-4081-6402-7 |
1-283-47838-2 | |
1-4081-4589-8 | |
9786613478382 | |
1-4081-4590-1 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910809821803321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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