Collected Poems Of William Alexander Percy

Author : William Alexander Percy
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0385352409
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Collected Poems of William Alexander Percy written by William Alexander Percy and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2013-11-20 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nothing would have given Will Percy greater delight—he died in January 1942—than this Collected Poems, for although he was lawyer, soldier, cosmopolitan, plantation-owner, and patriot, it was as a poet that he chose to think himself. And indeed this is a volume to be treasured by those whose memories go fondly back to days of quieter, more contemplative living. For Percy was not in any sense a modernist; his love of tradition is as evident in these poems as it was in his prose. Here again is the same gentle quality of nostalgia which has made Lanterns on the Levee one of the most charming and authentic pictures of the old South at its best. Percy’s first book of poems, Sappho in Levkas, was issued in 1905 and was followed by three others: In April Once (1920), Enzio’s Kingdom (1924), and Selected Poems (1930). In all of his poetry, Percy’s phrasing is lyric and dramatic; his verse forms subtly musical and finely regular—truly the work of a man who dreamed of the past and feared—all too prophetically—a dark and ominous future.

Author : William Alexander Percy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Enzio's Kingdom written by William Alexander Percy and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Alexander Percy
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781022036673
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sappho in Levkas, and Other Poems written by William Alexander Percy and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of poems by William Alexander Percy includes works inspired by his travels to Greece and Europe, as well as more personal reflections on love and loss. Percy's writing is known for its lyrical quality and exploration of themes such as beauty, nature, and mortality. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : William Alexander Percy
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1473395372
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poems of Arthur O'shaughnessy written by William Alexander Percy and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2014-07-07 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This delightful book contains a collection of some of Arthur O'shaughnessy's best poetry, diligently collated by William Alexander Percy and originally published in 1923. An anthology that will greatly appeal to fans and collectors of O'shaughnessy's seminal work, this book makes for a worthy addition to any personal library and is not to be missed by discerning poetry-lovers. Arthur William Edgar O'Shaughnessy (1844 – 1881) was a British poet who published his influential work in four books: An Epic of Women (1870), Lays of France (1872), Music and Moonlight (1874), and Songs of A Worker (1873). Many old books such as this are increasingly costly and hard to come by, and we hope that by republishing this book here we are increasing its accessibility for all those who are interested. This antique text has been elected for modern republication due to its immense literary value, and we are proud to republish it now complete with a new prefatory biography of the author.

Author : Benjamin E. Wise
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807869953
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book William Alexander Percy written by Benjamin E. Wise and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2012-03-12 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this evocative biography, Benjamin E. Wise presents the singular life of William Alexander Percy (1885-1942), a queer plantation owner, poet, and memoirist from Mississippi. Though Percy is best known as a conservative apologist of the southern racial order, in this telling Wise creates a complex and surprising portrait of a cultural relativist, sexual liberationist, and white supremacist. We follow Percy as he travels from Mississippi around the globe and, always, back again to the Delta. Wise's exploration brings depth and new meaning to Percy's already compelling life story--his prominent family's troubled history, his elite education and subsequent soldiering in World War I, his civic leadership during the Mississippi River flood of 1927, his mentoring of writers Walker Percy and Shelby Foote, and the writing and publication of his classic autobiography, Lanterns on the Levee. This biography sets Percy's life and search for meaning in the context of his history in the Deep South and his experiences in the gay male world of the early twentieth century. In Wise's hands, these seemingly disparate worlds become one.

Author : William Alexander Percy
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9781461958734
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Collected Poems written by William Alexander Percy and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-05-10 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nothing would have given Will Percy greater delight--he died in January 1942--than this "Collected Poems," for although he was lawyer, soldier, cosmopolitan, plantation-owner, and patriot, it was as a poet that he chose to think himself. And indeed this is a volume to be treasured by those whose memories go fondly back to days of quieter, more contemplative living. For Percy was not in any sense a modernist; his love of tradition is as evident in these poems as it was in his prose. Here again is the same gentle quality of nostalgia which has made "Lanterns on the Levee" one of the most charming and authentic pictures of the old South at its best. Percy's first book of poems, "Sappho in Levkas," was issued in 1905 and was followed by three others: "In April Once" (1920), "Enzio's Kingdom" (1924), and "Selected Poems" (1930). In all of his poetry, Percy's phrasing is lyric and dramatic; his verse forms subtly musical and finely regular--truly the work of a man who dreamed of the past and feared--all too prophetically--a dark and ominous future.

Author : William Alexander Percy
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0307820270
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lanterns On The Levee written by William Alexander Percy and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2012-09-05 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born and raised in Greenville, Mississippi, within the shelter of old traditions, aristocratic in the best sense, William Alexander Percy in his lifetime (1885–1942) was brought face to face with the convulsions of a changing world. Lanterns on the Levee is his memorial to the South of his youth and young manhood. In describing life in the Mississippi Delta, Percy bridges the interval between the semifeudal South of the 1800s and the anxious South of the early 1940s. The rare qualities of this classic memoir lie not in what Will Percy did in his life—although his life was exciting and varied—but rather in the intimate, honest, and soul-probing record of how he brought himself to contemplate unflinchingly a new and unstable era. The 1973 introduction by Walker Percy—Will's nephew and adopted son—recalls the strong character and easy grace of "the most extraordinary man I have ever known."

Author : Bertram Wyatt-Brown
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195109821
Total Pages : 499 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The House of Percy written by Bertram Wyatt-Brown and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1996-10-31 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the novels of Walker Percy represent some of the most prominent work in 20th-century Southern fiction, the Percy family itself has a history that is arguably as compelling as anything he could have created. Behind Percy's prose lurks a legacy of wealth, literary accomplishment, political leadership, depression, and suicide that spans two centuries. In this compelling biography, Wyatt-Brown skilfully combines intensive research and telling insights to produce the unforgettable story of this gifted family. 48 halftones.

Author : Lewis Baker
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807125137
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Percys of Mississippi written by Lewis Baker and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 1999-03-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in the twilight years of southern aristocracy, The Percys of Mississippi is a biography of a family in whose bloodline ran both a strong commitment to public service and an equally strong but more private dedication to literature. Following four generations of Percy family history, Lewis Baker chronicles the lives and public careers of Colonel William Alexander Percy, a planter and lawyer; his son LeRoy, a lawyer and United States Senator; LeRoy’s son Will, a poet and lawyer; and Will’s nephew and adopted son, the novelist Walker Percy. Known as the “gray eagle of the delta” for his piercing eyes and silver hair, Colonel Percy served as a Confederate officer in both the eastern and western campaigns of the Civil War. He returned home to practice law and manage the family’s property, but he was soon drawn into the arena of state politics, where he fought vigorously to strengthen the Mississippi River levee system and to protect his district from the perils of Reconstruction. With Colonel Percy’s death in 1888, LeRoy Percy inherited his father’s law practice and his mantle of leadership in the community. LeRoy used his power as a United States Senator to continue his father’s long quest for an adequate levee system; struggled to loosen the Ku Klux Klan’s grip of fear on the delta; and campaigned tirelessly to discredit the divisive creed of the state’s rising demagogue politicians. In the election of 1911, LeRoy Percy was defeated in his bid to be returned to the Senate, losing to the flamboyant demagogue James Kimble Vardaman, the “White Chief.” It was a defeat echoed across the South throughout the dawning years of the twentieth century, as poorer whites rejected the moderate counsel of the planter class, their traditional leaders, and embraced the demagogues’ fiery gospel of resentment. It was this troubling, altered South that LeRoy Percy bequeathed to his son William Alexander. Will Percy fought in World War I, taught for a time, and stood at his father’s side throughout many of the battles to safeguard the delta from extremism. But Will’s true calling was as a poet, and his lasting contribution to the delta would be in the form of a memorial to its past—his memoir Lanterns on the Levee. “During my day,” he wrote Will Percy not long before his death, “ I have witnessed the disintegration of that moral cohesion of the South which had given it its strength and its sons their singleness of purpose and simplicity.” It would be left to Walker Percy to fully confont htis modern, disintegrated South; to seek in such works as The Moviegoer, The Last Gentleman, and The Second Coming the place of the Percy family’s values in a world that has little use for aristocrats.

Author : Phinizy Spalding
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 542 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book William Alexander Percy written by Phinizy Spalding and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: