[ilds] Durrell's Complete Poems

[James Gifford]

I should have added, we can hope that Isabelle Keller-Privat's excellent 
work on Durrell's poetry will provoke some fresh critical discussions!

Keller-Privat, Isabelle. /«Between the lines»: l’écriture du déchirement 
dans la poésie de Lawrence Durrell/. Paris: Presses Universitaires de 
Paris Ouest, 2015.

http://presses.u-paris10.fr/?p=2441

Cheers,
James

On 2016-07-18 10:55 AM, Bruce Redwine wrote:
> As everyone surely knows, Durrell’s poetry begs for an edition of his
> complete poems, 1931-1990.  In 1980, Faber published James A. Brigham’s
> revised edition of the poetry from 1931-1974.  Durrell continued to
> write poetry after 1974, much of it very good.  I especially like the
> last poems in /CVG—/they glow with a sad and mysterious light.  In 2006,
> Faber published Peter Porter’s edition of Durrell’s /Selected Poems,/ a
> mere fragment of the corpus but containing an interesting introduction
> by a highly respected poet, who calls Durrell “one of the best of the
> past hundred years.”  For all that, I don’t think Porter fully
> understood or appreciated Durrell.  A complete edition with annotations
> would also be most helpful (the kind that Ricks and McCue have recently
> done for T. S. Eliot) .  But given Durrell’s fallen reputation, I doubt
> Faber would support such a massive undertaking.
>
> Bruce