Robert Hillyer (1895–1961)

This new poetry collection contains six of Hillyer's pre-Pulitzer books in their entirety, including a longer narrative poem (Carmus) that is a haunting fairy tale for adults with beautiful imagery and sentences.

While poets of Hillyer's era were flirting with modernism, imagism and symbolism, Hillyer was working with sonnets with constricted forms with meter and rhyme, and pastorals, mostly rejecting free verse and the "existential agonies of modern man" in order to write about eternal themes like nature, love and death, his poems rarely sounded artificial or stilted. Although occasionally the poems used allusions to art and history and mythology, the poems mostly remained accessible and didn't require elaborate footnotes.

This ebook edition also contains illustrations by Beatrice Stevens and two books of a collection of 19th and century Danish poetry and an improved translation in verse of the Egyptian Book of the Dead. This sensibility is apparent in his poems as well and were sounded with the mastery that conceals its art.

This volume includes English translations Hillyer did of Danish poems by notable Danish poets from 1779s -1950s. This ebook contains verse lines of various lengths, using a smaller display like a mobile phone is not recommended. For audio book you need quite and restful place to enjoy these poetry.… (más)