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Book SynopsisBefore Willa Cather turned primarily to the fiction which made her reputation, she produced striking poems that were collected in April Twilights. In her introduction, Cather scholar Bernice Slote notes that April Twilights restores what had been an almost lost, certainly blurred, portion of the creative life of a great novelist.
Trade Review“[In these poems] Cather’s . . . tone is elegiac or rueful, but her emotions are real. Her own life goes on; as poet she looks forward toward all the books she will write on her own perilous voyage, but gazing as she was from the nineteenth century into the twentieth, Cather stood at the Modernist crux. She knew poetry and valued it, but she also knew that her books were to take the form of fiction written in a striking, allusive, and poetic prose.”—from Robert Thacker’s introduction
"Professor Slote's introduction, which considers events leading to the poems, critically analyzes them and then brilliantly relates them to Willa Cather's fictional themes and techniques."—
Books AbroadTable of ContentsIntroduction by Robert Thacker
Preface to the Revised Edition
Willa Cather and Her First Book
Dedicatory
"Grandmither, Think Not I Forget"
In Rose Time
Asphodel
Mills of Montmartre
Arcadian Winter
The Hawthorne Tree
Sleep, Minstrel, Sleep
Fides, Spes
The Tavern
In Media Vita
Antinous
Paradox
Provençal Legend
Winter at Delphi
On Cydnus
The Namesake
Lament for Marsyas
White Birch in Wyoming
I Sought the Wood in Winter
Evening Song
Eurydice
The Encore
London Roses
The Night Express
Prairie Dawn
Aftermath
Thine Advocate
Poppies on Ludlow Castle
Sonnet
Thou Art the Pearl
From the Valley
I Have No House for Love to Shelter Him
The Poor Minstrel
Paris
Song
L'Envoi
Notes of the Poems of
April Twilights Appendix: Other Versus
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