Tristan Corbière Oysters, nightingales and cooking pots

• Main Author: Corbière, Tristan (auth)
• Other Authors: Pilling, Christopher (auth), Hibbitt, Richard (auth), Lunn-Rockliffe, Katherine (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: White Rose University Press 2018
• Subjects: Poetry; Language & Literature
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Tristan Corbière is a poet who tests language to the limits, dislocating normal syntax, revelling in self-contradictory affirmations, and piling up puns. Born in Brittany in 1845, he died at only 29, leaving to future readers a scattered assortment of texts. This collection brings together several...