Phoebe Hesketh (1909–2005)
Auteur de Netting the Sun: New and Collected Poems
A propos de l'auteur
Œuvres de Phoebe Hesketh
Between wheels and stars 1 exemplaire
Out of the dark : new poems 1 exemplaire
The buttercup children 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1909-01-29
- Date de décès
- 2005-02-25
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- UK (England)
- Lieu de naissance
- Preston, England, UK
- Lieux de résidence
- Rivington, Lancashire, England, UK
- Études
- Cheltenham Ladies College
Dagfield School - Professions
- poet
Journalist
editor
scriptwriter - Prix et distinctions
- Royal Society of Literature (Fellow, 1956)
University of Central Lancashire (Fellow, 1990) - Courte biographie
- Phoebe Rayner was born in Preston, Lancashire, the eldest daughter of Dr. Arthur Rayner, a pioneer in radiology, and his wife Gertrude, a violinist in the Hallé Orchestra. She wrote poetry as a schoolgirl. She attended Cheltenham Ladies College but left at age 17 to nurse her terminally ill mother. In 1931, at age 22, she married Aubrey Hesketh, a mill director, with whom she had three children. They moved to Rivington, Lancashire, where she lived the rest of her married life. Phoebe Hesketh's first collection, Poems, was published in 1939. During World War II, she worked as the editor of the "women's page" for the Bolton Evening News. In 1948, she published her second volume of poems, Lean Forward, Spring, which won widespread critical acclaim. She went on to write a total of 16 books of poetry and was championed by well-known literary figures and fellow poets, including Siegfried Sassoon. After the war, she worked as a freelance lecturer, poetry teacher, and journalist, and wrote scripts for the BBC. Her collected poems were published in Netting the Sun: New and Collected Poems (1989). She also wrote poetry for young readers, collected in A Song of Sunlight (1974) and Six of the Best (1989). She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1956, and a Fellow of the University of Central Lancashire in 1990. She also wrote My Aunt Edith, a biography of Edith Rigby, the famous suffragist, which was published in 1966, and two books about the village of Rivington.
Membres
Critiques
Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 11
- Membres
- 15
- Popularité
- #708,120
- Évaluation
- 4.0
- Critiques
- 1
- ISBN
- 10
[The poet] is a superb phrase-maker: 'the bell-noised streams' and 'infant fists of fern' on p.8 - 'Shack-Age' on p.9 - 'caged in comic bars of camouflage' on 39 - and the really unbearable two lines about Time's finger & the evening train on p.81. Ugh! The ones I liked best as wholes (wh. aren't necessary the ones from which I shall remember bits to quote) are Lion's Eye - it has a perfect shape, couldn't be either longer or shorter - The White Roe - the extra rhyming line added to some stanzas is delightful - I Am Not Resigned (I'd love to have thought of 'greener centuries') - Strange Country, and (perhaps best of all) Second Birth. A painful book - I understand [critic] R. Church's fears - but then most good poetry (tho' not the very topmost bent of all like parts of Dante) is.
- from a 4 October 1952 letter to the author, acknowledging a copy she had sent him, in The collected letters of C.S. Lewis, volume III… (plus d'informations)