Pieces of My Mind: Writings 1958-2002

by Frank Kermode

Shipped from UK, please allow 10 to 21 business days for arrival. Very Good, 1st Edition. Royal 8vo. xii, 466 p. Very good clean tight sound square, no bookplate, inscriptions or marks of any kind. In bright silver lettered black cloth and original unclipped pictorial dustwrapper very gently rubbed to head of spine, and with one small closed tear to lower corner. A great addition to the library of reader, scholar or collector alike. 'Glorious exhilarating essays, so much wit and intelligence, sends ou back to the texts with a fresh hunger' Telegraph.

Genres: Essays, Literary Criticism, Literature, Criticism

466 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2003

About the author

Sir John Frank Kermode was a highly regarded British literary critic best known for his seminal critical work The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction, published in 1967 (revised 2003).

Reviews

[S. · Rating 5 out of 5]

It's fitting that this collection begins with "Poet and Dancer Before Diaghilev." Kermode moves with balletic grace and alacrity through subjects ranging from Parisian salon culture of the '20s to Don DeLillo, often using the written word (Yeats, Stevens) as a point of departure for further critical and cultural adventuring. Pieces of My Mind is a pure pleasure from start to finish -- a generous testament to Sir Kermode's love and wonder for many, many things.

[Kurishin · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not sure this was the best place to start with Kermode's work. I'll look elsewhere.