Collected Poems
ISBN: PB: 9781857543797, Carcanet, August 1998
544 pp., 21,5x13,5 cm
When C. H. Sisson was 20, he gave up writing poems. He began once more in his 30s under the stress of war-time, stationed in India. Verse came intermittently, exiguously; the bulk of his early writing in translation ("fishing in other men's waters" h...
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Collected Translations
ISBN: PB: 9781857542929, Carcanet, November 1996
384 pp., 21,4x13,6 cm
"C. H. Sisson is one of the great translators of our time", Jasper Griffin wrote in The Times Literary Supplement. "Latin, French, German, Italian: there can have been few writers who have published translations of Virgil, Racine, Heine and Dante, in...
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Poems Selected
ISBN: PB: 9781857542196, Carcanet, September 1995
96 pp., 21,6x13,5 cm
"Poems: Selected traces" over half a century of C. H. Sisson's work, starting with poems written on a troopship and in Bengal and ending on home ground in Somerset. His beginnings were "without facility, and when I was forced into verse it was throug...
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Is There a Church of England?
ISBN: HB: 9781857540109, Carcanet, July 1993
180 pp., 22,4x14,2 cm
The worries many people have about the Church of England and its future are not confined to the matters most hotly debated in Synod. C. H. Sisson does not pretend to have answers. What he does, in pieces which range over more than four decades, is to...
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English Perspectives Essays on Liberty and Government
ISBN: HB: 9780856359804, Carcanet, January 1992
224 pp., 22,4x13,5 cm
When he was twenty, C. H. Sisson found himself in Hitler's Germany, and a year later in Paris. He was brought face-to-face with a realty of politics largely ignored by English radicals of the 1930s. He returned home at once more European and more viv...
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In Two Minds Literary Essays
ISBN: HB: 9780856358777, Carcanet, September 1990
280 pp., 22,3x14,4 cm
"In Two Minds" advances a single argument: that reading and writing are collaborative ventures with past and future. Tradition is a living resource. Sisson considers literary vocation, the act of reading, the practice of real criticism and the comed...
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Asiatic Romance
ISBN: HB: 9780856357855, Carcanet, October 1953
144 pp., 19,0x13,0 cm
This book has two purposes. The first is to entertain, by presenting a story told in vivid images. The second purpose is to satirise, with the seriousness and occasional ferocity with belong to that style of writing. The novel focuses on three Englis...
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