First published in , The Green Child is Herbert Read's only novel. But if he had written nothing else, this one inspired book would insure his fame. It is a Utopian novel, a unique blend of reality and fantasy which moves from the English countryside to the South American pampas and then to a mysterious and eternal underground of www.doorway.ru genre The Green Child is perhaps closest to the Reviews: 1. The Green Child is the only novel by Herbert Read -- the famous English poet, anarchist, and literary critic. First published by New Directions in , it remains a singular work of bewildering imagination and radiance. The author considered it a philosophical myth akin to Plato's cave/5(4). · Find The Green Child by Read, Herbert at Biblio. Uncommonly good collectible and rare books from uncommonly good booksellers.
Read, Herbert. THE GREEN CHILD: A ROMANCE. London, Toronto: William Heinemann Ltd, []. Octavo, pp. [] [ blank] [note: first and last leaves are blanks], original olive green cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold, publisher's windmill device stamped in blind on rear panel, black coated endpapers. Read is a poet, critic, aesthete, of perhaps greater repute than renown. Now this allegory, which appeared some years ago in England and has recently been republished there, is introduced in this country for the first time. In the perfectionism of the writing, the transcendence of its vision, its ""unearthly, hypnotic radiance"", there is much to justify a claim to classicism, although for the. I'd been meaning to read The green child for some time but had thought that it was only available in the original edition of Then I realised I could get a modern reprint from my library: I prefer to read a hard-copy book, myself, but you can download it or read it on Internet Archive.. I was attracted to the story because it's based upon the medieval English story of the Green.
Herbert Read was a British poet and anarchist and an influential art critic. In , he was knighted—strange, for an anarchist. He also wrote a strange novel that was published in The novel is called The Green Child. It’s the only novel Read wrote and is an autobiographical political fantasy. Beautifully written, the only novel by art critic and anarchist poet Herbert Read is a strange, powerful, and original work First published in , Herbert Read's only novel is a sustained piece of political and philosophical fantasy. The Green Child is the only completed novel by the English anarchist poet and critic Herbert Read. Written in and first published by Heinemann in , the story is based on the 12th-century legend of two green children who mysteriously appeared in the English village of Woolpit, speaking an apparently unknown language.
0コメント