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Silverpoints 1893: Spiritual Poems 1896
Book by Gray, John
162 pages, Hardcover
Published January 1, 1995
About the author
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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