der hænger i historiens horisont

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-afhandling i Æstetik og Kultur på Aarhus Universitet

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Ligesom Halfdan i sine digte leger med ordene og lader det ene ord gribe det andet

Not Waving but Drowning and other poems der hænger i historiens horisontStevie Smith was not only a famous poet in her lifetime but a poet before her time, a radical eccentric who relished the performance of poetry as sung and spoken word. The poems are distinctly unsentimental as she casts the 'eye of an anarchist' over propriety and convention, finding comedy in the tragic and tragedy in the comic. She asks the questions we don't have the nous or courage to ask, speaking for the lonely, the troubled and the trapped, and