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The Second Seedtime: Notebooks, 1980-94 (The Swiss List)
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Philippe Jaccottet (Author) Tess Lewis (Contributor)
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Since his first collection of poetry appeared in 1953, Philippe Jaccottet has sought to express the ineffable that lies at the heart of our material world in his essential, elemental poetry. As one of Switzerland's most prominent and prolific men of letters, Jaccottet has published more than a dozen books of poetry and criticism. One of Europe's finest contemporary poets, Jaccottet is a writer of exacting attention. Through keen observations of the natural world, of art, literature, music, and reflections on the human condition, Jaccottet opens his readers' eyes to the transcendent in everyday life. The Second Seedtime is a collection of "things seen, things read, and things dreamed." The volume continues the project Jaccottet began three decades earlier in his first volume of notebooks, Seedtime. Here, again, he gathers flashes of beauty dispersed around him like seeds that may blossom into poems or moments of inspiration. He returns, insistently, to such literary touchstones as Dante, Montaigne, Gongora, Goethe, Kierkegaard, Holderlin, Michaux, Hopkins, Bronte, and Dickinson, as well as musical greats including Bach, Monteverdi, Purcell, and Schubert.
The Second Seedtime is the vivid chronicle of one man's passionate engagement with the life of the mind, the spirit, and the natural world.
About the Author
Philippe Jaccottet is a major Swiss poet and critic and a translator of works by Homer, Goethe, Holderlin, Rilke, and Musil. Tess Lewis's numerous translations from French and German include works by Peter Handke, Jean-Luc Benoziglio, and Pascal Bruckner.
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- Contributor: Philippe Jaccottet
- Imprint: Seagull Books London Ltd
- ISBN13: 9780857424341
- Number of Pages: 208
- Packaged Dimensions: 14x22x3mm
- Packaged Weight: 425
- Format: Hardback
- Publisher: Seagull Books London Ltd
- Release Date: 2017-11-17
- Series: The Swiss List
- Binding: Hardback
- Biography: Philippe Jaccottet is a major Swiss poet and critic and a translator of works by Homer, Goethe, Holderlin, Rilke, and Musil. Tess Lewis's numerous translations from French and German include works by Peter Handke, Jean-Luc Benoziglio, and Pascal Bruckner.
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