The Ecliptic

Joseph Gordon MacLeod

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First published by Faber & Faber in 1930, The Ecliptic is a lost modernist classic. Complex in structure, rich in music, it was hailed by Morton Dauwen Zabel in Poetry as a new "Dawn in Britain." Richard Owens explains in his afterword to this edition: "The poem offers the narrative of a single consciousness in twelve parts, each of which corresponds to one of twelve constellations in the Western zodiac. It begins with Aries and closes with Pisces, moving from birth to death, with each section conveying a mood or quality specific to its phase of life and corresponding astrological sign."

Book Details

Publisher: Flood Editions
Publish Date: Mar 21st, 2016
Pages: 112
Language: English
Edition: undefined - undefined
Dimensions: 8.40in - 6.50in - 0.40in - 0.50lb
EAN: 9780990340768
Categories: • European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

About the Author

MacLeod, Joseph Gordon: - Joseph Todd Gordon Macleod (1903-1984) was a British poet, actor, playwright, theatre director, theatre historian and BBC newsreader. He also published poetry under the pseudonym Adam Drinan.

Praise for this book

"In the poetry of Joseph Gordon Macleod, personhood and astrology align at just the right degree of compositional value . . . A long poem written on the astrolabed fissures of a piecemealed mind, Macleod's work reflects the modernist concern for fragmented consciousness and the dissolvable, irresolute aspects of personality. Indeed, Basil Bunting had approvingly sent it to Ezra Pound, and Pound encouraged T. S. Eliot to publish it at Faber & Faber; Virginia Woolf had been close to publishing it for Hogarth Press; and Louis Zukofsky, another player on the stage of refraction, demonstrated some admiration for Macleod's brand."--Jose-Luis Moctezuma, Chicago Review

"The Ecliptic interested me more than any new thing since The Waste Land . . ."--Basil Bunting