Autobiography Of A Super Tramp

Author: DAVIES W H

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  • : 21.95 AUD
  • : 9781612190228
  • : MELVILLE
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  • : December 2011
  • : 203mm X 127mm X 15mm
  • : United States
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  • : DAVIES W H
  • : TP
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Barcode 9781612190228
9781612190228

Description

A Welsh tramp who became a popular poet acclaimed by conservative Georgians and vanguard Ezra Pound alike, W.H. Davies surprised contemporaries with the unlikeliest portrait of the artist as a young man ever written. Praised by Osbert Sitwell for 'primitive splendour and directness,' Davies evokes the beauty and frontier violence of turn-of-the-century America in prose George Bernard Shaw commended.The insurgent wanderlust voice is expressed here with raucous exuberence.

Reviews

"Davies and Kerouac are so similar it's like they have had the same illness. !ey kept searching, longing, moving. . . !ey are mesmerising narrators. . . [Davies's] story has the tension and suspense of a man whose life and soul is in jeopardy."

"The Times" (London)