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Authors: Samuel Beckett
Selected Poems 1930-1988 (11 page)
âLady Love', âOut of Sight in the Direction of My Body'. First published in
Thorns of Thunder: Selected Poems of Paul Ãluard
(London, 1936). Paul Ãluard (1895â1952), French surrealist poet.
âZone'.
Transition Fifty
6 (October 1950), reprinted by Dolmen Press (1972). Guillaume Apollinaire (1880â1918), Polish-born French surrealist poet.
âLong after Chamfort'. First published
The Blue Guitar
December 1975 (maxims 1â6),
Hermathena
CXV 1973 (number 6), and
Collected Poems
(numbers 7 and 8). Nicolas-Sébastien Chamfort (1741â1794), mordant French aphorist. The last of the eight maxims derives not from Chamfort but from Pascal.
âTailpiece'. From
Watt
, and placed last in all previous editions of Beckett's poetry.
Samuel Beckett was born in Dublin in 1906. He was educated at Portora Royal School and Trinity College, Dublin, where he graduated in 1927. His made his poetry debut in 1930 with
Whoroscope
and followed it with essays and two novels before World War Two. He wrote one of his most famous plays,
Waiting for Godot
, in 1949 but it wasn't published in English until 1954.
Waiting for Godot
brought Beckett international fame and firmly established him as a leading figure in the Theatre of the Absurd. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1961. Beckett continued to write prolifically for radio, TV and the theatre until his death in 1989.
David Wheatley teaches modern literature at the University of Hull. He has published three collections of poetry with Gallery Press.
ENDGAME
Preface by Rónán McDonald
COMPANY/ILL SEEN ILL SAID/WORSTWARD HO/STIRRINGS STILL
Edited by Dirk Van Hulle
KRAPP'S LAST TAPE AND OTHER SHORTER PLAYS
Preface by S. E. Gontarski
MURPHY
Edited by J. C. C. Mays
WATT
Edited by C. J. Ackerley
ALL THAT FALL AND OTHER PLAYS FOR RADIO AND SCREEN
Preface and Notes by Everett Frost
MOLLOY
Edited by Shane Weller
HOW IT IS
Edited by Magessa O'Reilly
THE EXPELLED/THE CALMATIVE/THE END/FIRST LOVE
Edited by Christopher Ricks
SELECTED POEMS
1930â1989
Edited by David Wheatley
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Forthcoming titles
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WAITING FOR GODOT
Preface by Mary Bryden
MORE PRICKS THAN KICKS
Edited by Cassandra Nelson
MALONE DIES
Edited by Peter Boxall
THE UNNAMABLE
Edited by Steven Connor
HAPPY DAYS
Preface by James Knowlson
TEXTS FOR NOTHING/RESIDUA/FIZZLES: SHORTER FICTION
1950â1981
Edited by Mark Nixon
MERCIER AND CAMIER
Edited by Sean Kennedy
Collected Poems in English and French
published in 1977 by John Calder
This edition first published in 2009
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This ebook edition first published in 2012
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