Poems (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. Love, Defiance, and Bohemian Modernism in Early Twentieth-Century British Women's VerseBy Iris Tree
Length2h 27m
About this audiobook
Iris Tree's Poems gathers lyrics of striking poise, emotional candour, and theatrical immediacy, poised between late Georgian song and the sharper freedoms of early modernism. The collection moves through love, solitude, mortality, beauty, and self-dramatization with a voice at once aristocratic and rebellious. Its cadences retain a traditional musical elegance, yet its images, attitudes, and psychological directness belong to the post-Edwardian world, where inherited forms are tested by modern sensibility. Tree was born into the London theatrical elite, the daughter of actor-manager Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree, and grew up amid performance, art, and literary experiment. Her own life as poet, actress, painter's model, and bohemian figure placed her close to the avant-garde circles of the early twentieth century. That background helps explain the poems' fusion of stage-like intensity, visual precision, and unconventional femininity. This volume is recommended to readers interested in women's modernism, neglected poetic voices, and the cultural transition from Victorian aestheticism to modern self-consciousness. Poems rewards attention not only as a literary artifact but as the record of a vivid intelligence fashioning beauty from defiance.
This enriched edition has been carefully crafted to add value to your reading experience.
- Lastly, our hand‐picked Memorable Quotes distill pivotal lines and turning points, serving as touchstones for the collection's central themes.
Audiobook details
GenrePoetry
Length2 hrs 27 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 1, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Poems (Annotated)
19IV
2ROCKETS AND ASHES
20V
3A ROSE
21VI
4BLACK VELVET
22ISLANDS
5NERVES
23LAMPLIGHT AND STARLIGHT
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6THE COMPLEX LIFE
24LAMP-POSTS
7MOODS
25LONDON
8I
26BAHAMA ISLANDS
9II
27I
10III
28II
11IV
29THOUGHTS OF LONDON
12SMOKE
30STREETS
13ZEPPELINS
31SUNDAY
14HOLY RUSSIA
32VAHDAH
15FLAME
33TO MY FATHER
16I
34TO MY MOTHER
17II
35THE UNDERTONE OF THE VOLGA BOAT SONG
18III
36Memorable Quotes
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