The Everlasting Road

ISBN-13: 9783753152615 / Angielski / Miękka / 88 str.

Robert Wynne-Simmons

Opis

A complete collection of all the early poems of Robert Wynne-Simmons, written between the ages of 9 and 19, including the cycle of six poems entitled "Six Watches of the Night" and the three "Poems from the Abyss". The collection takes you from his nine-year old poetry "The Pride of Salam", "Civilisation", "Optimism" and "Pessimism", through to "The Book of Ages", which was the last poem written in his teens.

A complete collection of all the early poems of Robert Wynne-Simmons, written between the ages of 9 and 19.

O autorze

Wynne-Simmons, Robert Robert Wynne-Simmons was born in 1947 in Sutton, Surrey, England. He began his first novel "A Winter Emerald" shortly after the death of his father in 1964. He has written two other novels, "Finals" and "Children of the Spirits", and a large number of poems, short stories, stage plays and film scripts. He began a career as a film director in 1968, with "The Judgment of Albion". His 1970 screenplay for "Blood on Satan's Claw" is now regarded as a classic of British Horror, and screenplay for "The Outcasts" (Ireland 1982) which he also directed, was a pioneer of magic realism in the Cinema. He is also a composer, whose works include an orchestral song cycle, a symphony, a musical, various chamber pieces, and he has written the libretti for two operas.