Research Catalog

Title

Stonypath days : letters between Ian Hamilton Finlay and Stephen Bann 1970-1972 / edited and introduced by Stephen Bann.

Author

Finlay, Ian Hamilton

Publication

London : Wilmington Square Books, an imprint of Bitter Lemon Press, 2016.

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Additional Authors

Bann, Stephen

Description

203 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 25 cm

Summary

"Ian Hamilton Finlay (1925-2006) was a leading Scottish poet, artist, sculptor and garden designer. His garden at Stonypath, now called ‘Little Sparta’ has been described as ‘the only truly original garden created since 1945’. These letters to (and from) Finlay’s friend, the English poet and scholar, Stephen Bann, centre on the initial development of the garden at Stonypath, near Edinburgh, later to become the world renowned ‘Little Sparta’. They cover Finlay’s turn away from poetry towards sculpture and garden design, and the thinking behind, and consequences of, this development."--

Alternative Title

Letters between Ian Hamilton Finlay and Stephen Bann 1970-1972

Subject

• Finlay, Ian Hamilton > Correspondence
• Bann, Stephen > Correspondence
• Bann, Stephen
• Finlay, Ian Hamilton

Genre/Form

Records and correspondence

Note

• Second collection of correspondence between Stephen Bann with Ian Hamilton Finlay; the first collection, entiitled Midway : letters from Ian Hamilton Finlay to Stephen Bann 1964-69 / edited and introduced by Stephen Bann, covered the period between the autumn of 1964 and 1969, included letters written only by Ian Hamilton Finlay.

Bibliography (note)

• "Works by Ian Hamilton Finlay, with references to the correspondence": Pages 189-193.
• "Works by Stephen Bann, with references to the correspondence": Pages 195-196.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Preface -- Note to the reader -- Introduction -- January-December 1970 -- Plates -- January 1971-January 1972 -- Works by Ian Hamilton Finlay -- Works by Stephen Bann -- Biographical index.

ISBN

• 1908524723
• 9781908524720

OCLC

• 976447339
• SCSB-10948372

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library