One of the foremost American novelists of the early twentieth century, Willa Cather (1873-1947) was born in Virginia but grew up in Nebraska. Before she wrote the novels that would make her famous, she was known as a poet, the most popular of her poems reprinted many times in national magazines and anthologies. In such lyrical poems as ‘Prairie Dawn’, ‘The Hawthorn Tree,’ ‘Going Home’ and ‘Winter at Delphi’, Cather exhibits both a finely tuned sensitivity to the beauties of the physical world and a richly symbolic use of the landscapes of myth. The themes that were to animate her later masterpieces found their first expression in these haunting, elegiac ballads and sonnets.
Cather’s O Pioneers! and My Antonia are already available in Everyman’s Library.
- ISBN10 1841597945
- ISBN13 9781841597942
- Publish Date 29 March 2013 (first published 26 March 2013)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Everyman's Library
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 256
- Language English