Although his literary reputation rests primarily on his novels, Malcolm Lowry (1909-57) considered himself to be a poet, and he composed an extensive poetic canon. No reliable edition of Lowry`s poetry currently exists. Increasing critical interest in all aspects of Lowry`s life and work prompted the preparation of this complete edition of his poetry, in which the poems are located, identified, dated, arranged, collated, annotated, and explicated by biographical, critical, and textual introductions. The sections of Lowry`s text are chronologically arranged to reflect his artistic development and are preceded by short essays describing the specific issues raised by those poems. The opening section -- Lowry`s poetic juvenilia -- reflects his fascination with the sea, as does the ensuing section, The Lighthouse Invites the Storm, his first collection of poetry, a sequence of related semi-autobiographical poems which depicts the adventures of the characters Peter Gaunt and Vigil Forget. Lowry composed most of The Lighthouse in Mexico; following it in this edition is a small group of uncollected Mexican poems. The next two sections of text -- `Dollarton 1940-54: Selected Poems 1947` and `Dollarton 1940-54: Uncollected Poems` -- reflect and record the experience of Lowry`s sojourn on the lower mainland and its deep effect on him. All the poems are fully annotated. The appendices contain sections of song lyrics and undated fragments, as well as a remarkably coherent group of love poems written between 1949 and Lowry`s death in 1957. This edition provides Lowryans with ready access to the latest determinable authorial versions of, and the textual histories for, the canon`s 490 poems, which range in date from 1925 to 1957. By using this edition, readers will be able to reconstruct every version of every Lowry poem.
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- Includes bibliographical references (p. [393]-400) and indexes
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- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- C811/.52
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 20
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- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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- 0774803622 9780774854689
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- PR6023.O96
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- A17 1992eb
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- 1 electronic text (xviii, 418 p.)
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- Canada
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- (CaBNVSL)jme00326375 (OCoLC)243566350 (CaOOCEL)404133
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Table of Contents
- Contents 8
- Acknowledgments 20
- Abbreviations 21
- INTRODUCTION 22
- Malcolm Lowry and His Poetry 24
- Texts and Contexts: A Critical Overview 31
- Note on the Text 42
- THE TEXT 52
- Apprenticeship: Poetic Juvenilia, 1925–33 54
- The Lighthouse Invites the Storm, 1934–9 67
- I. PETER GAUNT AND THE CANALS 71
- II. LETTER FROM OAXACA TO NORTH AFRICA 76
- III. THE CANTINAS 78
- IV. SONGS FOR SECOND CHILDHOOD 86
- V. THE COMEDIAN 94
- VI. THE MOON IN SCANDINAVIA 100
- VII. THE ROAR OF THE SEA AND THE DARKNESS 108
- Uncollected Poems, 1933–9 121
- Dollarton, 1940–54: Selected Poems, 1947 133
- POEMS OF THE SEA 136
- POEMS FROM MEXICO 144
- POEMS FROM VANCOUVER 150
- Dollarton, 1940–54: Uncollected Poems 173
- EXPLANATORY ANNOTATION 248
- APPENDICES 338
- Appendix A: LOVE POEMS, 1949–57 340
- Appendix B: SONG LYRICS 369
- Appendix C: FRAGMENTS 377
- APPRENTICESHIP 378
- MEXICO 379
- CANADA 382
- ENGLAND 391
- UNDATED 391
- Appendix D: CORRESPONDENCE PAPER CHART 393
- Appendix E: MARGINALIA 397
- Appendix F: SIGBJØRN'S LIGHTHOUSE 403
- Appendix G: LATE DISCOVERIES 412
- BIBLIOGRAPHY 414
- INDICES 422
- Index of First Lines 422
- Index of Titled Poems 426
- Index of Birney's Titles 432
- COPY-TEXT LOCATION FILE 436
