Poems (Annotated) - Enriched Edition Love Defiance and Bohemian Modernism in Early Twentieth-Century British Women's Verse

Iris Tree

Sinopsis

Iris Tree's Poems gathers lyrics of striking poise, emotional candour, and theatrical immediacy, poised between late Georgian song and the sharper freedoms of early modernism. The collection moves through love, solitude, mortality, beauty, and self-dramatization with a voice at once aristocratic and rebellious. Its cadences retain a traditional musical elegance, yet its images, attitudes, and psychological directness belong to the post-Edwardian world, where inherited forms are tested by modern sensibility. Tree was born into the London theatrical elite, the daughter of actor-manager Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree, and grew up amid performance, art, and literary experiment. Her own life as poet, actress, painter's model, and bohemian figure placed her close to the avant-garde circles of the early twentieth century. That background helps explain the poems' fusion of stage-like intensity, visual precision, and unconventional femininity. This volume is recommended to readers interested in women's modernism, neglected poetic voices, and the cultural transition from Victorian aestheticism to modern self-consciousness. Poems rewards attention not only as a literary artifact but as the record of a vivid intelligence fashioning beauty from defiance.

This enriched edition has been carefully crafted to add value to your reading experience.
- Lastly, our hand‐picked Memorable Quotes distill pivotal lines and turning points, serving as touchstones for the collection's central themes.

Disponible desde: 20/11/2023.

Longitud de impresión: 52 páginas.

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