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The well at morning : selected poems and graphic artworks, 1925-1971

Title
The well at morning : selected poems and graphic artworks, 1925-1971 / Bohuslav Reynek ; translated from the Czech by Justin Quinn ; with essays by Martin C. Putna, Justin Quinn, and Jiřǐ́ Šerých.
Author
Reynek, Bohuslav, 1892-1971
Publication
Praha : Karolinum Press, [2017]

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Additional Authors
  • Renaud, Suzanne, 1889-1964.
  • Quinn, Justin, 1968-
  • Putna, Martin C.
  • Šerých, Jiří
  • Wheatley, David, 1970-
Description
179 pages : illustrations; 22 cm.
Summary
Poet and artist Bohuslav Reynek spent most of his life in the relative obscurity of the Czech-Moravian Highlands. Although he suffered at the hands of the Communist regime, he cannot be numbered among the dissident poets of Eastern Europe who won acclaim for their political poetry; rather, Reynek belongs to an older pastoral-devotional tradition - a kindred spirit to the likes of Gerard Manley Hopkins, William Wordsworth, Robert Frost, and Edward Thomas. The first comprehensive book on Reynek to be published in English, this work presents a selection of poems spanning his life and includes twenty-five of the poet's color etchings. Featuring three essays by leading scholars situating Reynek's life and work alongside those of his better-known peers, this book presents a noted Czech artist to the wider world, reshaping and deepening our understanding of modern European poetry.
Series Statement
Modern Czech classics
Uniform Title
  • Poems. Selections (2017). English
  • Modern Czech classics.
Alternative Title
  • Poems.
  • Selected poems and graphic artworks, 1925-1971
Subjects
Genre/Form
Poetry.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Selected poems : A fool -- Signs of autumn -- Hoar-frost -- Springtide -- Ballad -- The morning... -- Pilgrimage to La Salette -- Dawn in winter -- Idyll, morning -- Mid-winter longing -- Three goats -- Cockerels -- Carpenters in the wind -- Hair -- Spider -- Fly -- Gathering potatoes -- Yellow bedstraw, a blessing -- Snow across the threshold -- The well at morning -- Hawkmoths at evening -- Light breeze -- Initials -- Evening -- Shadows -- November -- Goats in the field -- At home -- A memory -- Hay rick in winter -- Advent in Stará Říše -- Twilight -- Job in winter -- A dead cat -- But still the levins -- Quince on the table -- Wet snow -- Swallow -- At home -- Frost -- Rue L... -- Door -- Through the dark -- Paths of home -- November - Windows on streets -- Goose in mist -- Saint Martin -- Sticks in a fence -- Looking forward -- The angel of distress -- Swallows flown -- Match in a puddle. Graphic art (with commentaries by Jiří Šerých). Four poems by Suzanne Renaud : Harvest moon -- Tom Thumb -- Wearish old tree -- Day of the Dead, 1938. Essays on Bohuslav Reynek : Bohuslav Reynek: from Catholic counterculture and the apocalypse to a Highland farm / Martin C. Putna -- Reynek's journeys / Justin Quinn -- Bohuslav Reynek's graphic art / Jiří Šerých. Czech titles of English poems -- List of illustrations -- Translator's acknowledgements.
Call Number
JFD 18-1008
ISBN
  • 9788024634258
  • 8024634252
LCCN
9788024634258
OCLC
1012392954
Author
Reynek, Bohuslav, 1892-1971, author, artist.
Title
The well at morning : selected poems and graphic artworks, 1925-1971 / Bohuslav Reynek ; translated from the Czech by Justin Quinn ; with essays by Martin C. Putna, Justin Quinn, and Jiřǐ́ Šerých.
Publisher
Praha : Karolinum Press, [2017]
Edition
First English edition.
Type of Content
text
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Modern Czech classics
Modern Czech classics.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Chronological Term
1900-1999
Added Author
Reynek, Bohuslav, 1892-1971. Prints. Selections (2017)
Renaud, Suzanne, 1889-1964. Poems. Selections (2017). English.
Quinn, Justin, 1968- translator, writer of added commentary.
Putna, Martin C., writer of added commentary.
Šerých, Jiří, writer of added commentary.
Wheatley, David, 1970- translator.
Cover Title
Selected poems and graphic artworks, 1925-1971
Other Standard Identifier
9788024634258
Research Call Number
JFD 18-1008
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