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Silverpoints
Silverpoints is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This popular classic work by John Gray is in the English language, and may not include graphics or images from the original edition. If you enjoy the works of John Gray then we highly recommend this publication for your book collection.
- GenresPoetry
34 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1893
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John Gray
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He was born in London. Taken out of school in 1879 , he was successively a metal-turner, civil servant, aesthete, Catholic convert, and, from 1901 , priest. His Silverpoints (subsidized by Oscar Wilde , designed by Charles Ricketts , published by the Bodley Head, 1893 ) contained sixteen poems and thirteen translations from the French Symbolists; as both text and object, it was the quintessential Nineties volume. After two decades of silence following his ordination, he resumed writing and publishing in his last years. His novella Park: A Fantastic Story ( 1932 ) was reissued in 1966 and again in 1984 . Gray died four months after the death of his lifelong friend and benefactor André Raffalovich .
‘The Barber’ and ‘Mishka’ stand out from the merely decorative effects of his earliest verse, as does ‘The Tree of Knowledge’ from the mass of devotional poetry written between his conversion and ordination; ‘The Flying Fish’ ( 1896 ) is also notable. His late work is compressed, precise, and individual (at times eccentric); ‘Quatrains’ and ‘Ode’ show to especially good effect his reading of modernist poetry.
Gray's Collected Poems have been edited by Ian Fletcher (London, 1974 ; Greensville, NC, 1988 ). Fr. Brocard Sewell has compiled Two Friends ( 1963 ; essays on Gray and Raffalovich) and written Footnote to the Nineties ( 1968 ) and In the Dorian Mode: A Life of John Gray ( 1983 ). Jerusha Hull McCormack's John Gray: Poet, Dandy, and Priest ( 1991 ) is a critical biography.
Read more: John Gray Biography - ( 1866 –1934 ), Silverpoints, Park: A Fantastic Story, ‘The Barber’, ‘Mishka’, ‘The Tree of Knowledge’ http://www.jrank.org/literature/pages...
He was born in London. Taken out of school in 1879 , he was successively a metal-turner, civil servant, aesthete, Catholic convert, and, from 1901 , priest. His Silverpoints (subsidized by Oscar Wilde , designed by Charles Ricketts , published by the Bodley Head, 1893 ) contained sixteen poems and thirteen translations from the French Symbolists; as both text and object, it was the quintessential Nineties volume. After two decades of silence following his ordination, he resumed writing and publishing in his last years. His novella Park: A Fantastic Story ( 1932 ) was reissued in 1966 and again in 1984 . Gray died four months after the death of his lifelong friend and benefactor André Raffalovich .
‘The Barber’ and ‘Mishka’ stand out from the merely decorative effects of his earliest verse, as does ‘The Tree of Knowledge’ from the mass of devotional poetry written between his conversion and ordination; ‘The Flying Fish’ ( 1896 ) is also notable. His late work is compressed, precise, and individual (at times eccentric); ‘Quatrains’ and ‘Ode’ show to especially good effect his reading of modernist poetry.
Gray's Collected Poems have been edited by Ian Fletcher (London, 1974 ; Greensville, NC, 1988 ). Fr. Brocard Sewell has compiled Two Friends ( 1963 ; essays on Gray and Raffalovich) and written Footnote to the Nineties ( 1968 ) and In the Dorian Mode: A Life of John Gray ( 1983 ). Jerusha Hull McCormack's John Gray: Poet, Dandy, and Priest ( 1991 ) is a critical biography.
Read more: John Gray Biography - ( 1866 –1934 ), Silverpoints, Park: A Fantastic Story, ‘The Barber’, ‘Mishka’, ‘The Tree of Knowledge’ http://www.jrank.org/literature/pages...
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February 14, 2025
as i read this, i did my very best to not allow my bias towards anything that oscar wilde is involved in to affect this. there were certain poems that i really enjoyed a lot, yet it had its bad parts as well. also, i would like to thank the john for being the inspiration behind dorian gray. it was a good book but it was also ehhh. also, i would like to point out that his translations were good to read, yet since they were mere translations i did not base the review of his books on something that was not his work.
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