Collected Poems of Samuel Beckett (el. knyga) (skaityta knyga) | knygos.lt

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Samuel Beckett was born in Dublin in 1906 and graduated from Trinity College. He settled in Paris in 1937, after travels in Germany and periods of residence in London and Dublin. He remained in France during the Second World War and was active in the French Resistance. From the spring of 1946 his plays, novels, short fiction, poetry and criticism were written largely in French. With the production of En attendant Godot in Paris in 1953, Beckett's work began to achieve widespread recognition. During his subsequent career as a playwright and novelist in both French and English he redefined the possibilities of prose fiction and writing for the theatre. Samuel Beckett won the Prix Formentor in 1961 and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1969. He died in Paris in December 1989. ​Séan Lawlor (1948–2011) was Research Fellow at the Beckett International Foundation at the University of Reading. ​John Pilling is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Reading, and former editor of the Journal of Beckett Studies. His books include Beckett before Godot (1997) and A Samuel Beckett Chronology (2006). It was as a poet that Samuel Beckett launched himself in the little reviews of 1930s Paris, and as a poet that he ended his career. ​The Collected Poems is the most complete edition to date of Beckett's poetry and verse translations, as well as the first critical edition. The contents establish a definitive text and canon for the poetry, including much unpublished and unreprinted material; the commentary draws on both published sources and manuscripts, as well as upon Beckett's extensive correspondence. ​The notes place each poem in context, detailing the history and circumstances of its composition; they indicate significant variants and help explain obscure turns of phrase and allusions (frequently sourced to Beckett's notebooks); they also identify resonances between poems and across Beckett's work as a whole.