Sylvia Townsend Warner
Personal Information
Born December 6, 1893
Died May 1, 1978 (84 years old)
London Borough of Harrow, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
33 books
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213 readers
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Description
Sylvia Townsend Warner was a highly individual writer of novels, short stories and poems. She contributed short stories to the New Yorker for more than forty years, translated Proust's Contre Saint-Beuve into English, wrote a biography of the novelist T.H.White and a guide to Somerset. Here's the Townsend Warner's bibliography for her: I wonder if Open Library can match it!
Books
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Collected Poems
D. J. Enright, Peter Redgrove, Alfred Noyes, Herman Melville, Wyatt, Thomas Sir, Vachel Lindsay, Dylan Thomas, Saint-John Perse, Kay Boyle, Stéphane Mallarmé, Elder Olson, Wilfred Owen, Yvor Winters, Jack Kerouac, Primo Levi, W. R. Rodgers, Edgell Rickword, William Butler Yeats, Patrick Kavanagh, Kōnstantinos Petrou Kabaphēs, Isabella Valancy Crawford, Stephen Crane, Lorna Goodison, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Howard Paton Vincent, Nikolai Tolstoy, John Betjeman, James Arlington Wright, Edith Dame Sitwell, Horace Gregory, Tomas Tranströmer, Kingsley Amis, Omoseye Bolaji, W. H. Auden, Rita Dove, Miriam Waddington, Marianne Moore, Allan Ahlberg, Patrick O'Brian, Dorothy Livesay, Edgar Allan Poe, Chinua Achebe, Conrad Aiken, George Seferis, John Collings Squire, Mervyn Peake, Oliver St. John Gogarty, Richard L. Tierney, Lewis, Alun, Alan Sillitoe, Thom Gunn, John Berger, Mark Strand, Clarke, Austin, Christy Brown, Robert Bly, Sylvia Plath, Paul Goodman, Lawrence Durrell, Austin Dobson, Louis MacNeice, Jonathan Swift, Edward Thomas, C. H. Sisson, Emily Dickinson, Robert Hillyer, Abbie Huston Evans, Ted Hughes, Condé Bénoist Pallen, David Constantine, Gascoyne, David, Eavan Boland, Pratt, E. J., U. A. Fanthorpe, Ruth Pitter, Josephine Miles, Frederick William Rolfe, Hope Mirrlees, Anthony Thwaite, Thomas Kinsella, John Reed, Edwin Muir, Clive James, Padraic Colum, William Blake, Stevie Smith, F. T. Prince, Louise Glück, Paul Auster, William Plomer, Maurice Lindsay, Theodore Roethke, Justice, Donald Rodney, Iain Crichton Smith, Nicholson, Norman, Federico García Lorca, Leslie Norris, Robert Hayden, Rolfe Humphries, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Ronald Duncan, Sylvia Townsend Warner
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Selected poems
D. J. Enright, Jones Very, Herman Melville, Michael S. Harper, Wyatt, Thomas Sir, David Lawrence, Lewis Carroll, Paul Celan, Octavio Paz, Boynton, Henry Walcott, Pāratitācan̲, George Mackay Brown, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Dylan Thomas, Saint-John Perse, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Stéphane Mallarmé, Sir Philip Sidney, Ennis Rees, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, John Glassco, Karl Jay Shapiro, William Barnes, Jorge Luis Borges, Niyi Osundare, Robert Louis Stevenson, Leah Goldberg, Cyprian Norwid, Yvor Winters, Anne Brontë, Carol Ann Duffy, Seán Ó Ríordáin, Czesław Miłosz, Sister Mary Madeleva, Oxenham, John, Mongane Wally Serote, Michael Rosen, Paul Éluard, Harvey Shapiro, Johannes Bobrowski, Barnabe Googe, Sophocles, Rudyard Kipling, Walter De la Mare, Aldous Huxley, Charles Olson, William Butler Yeats, Walt Whitman, Frank O'Hara, Kōnstantinos Petrou Kabaphēs, Diana Der Hovanessian, D. H. Lawrence, John Keats, Lorna Goodison, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Wallace Stevens, Percy Bysshe Shelley, César Vallejo, Paul Verlaine, Graham, W. S., Ovid, James Arlington Wright, John Ashbery, Анато́лий Александрович Биск, Tomas Tranströmer, John Updike, Gaspara Stampa, Emma Lazarus, W. H. Auden, Lord Byron, Robinson Jeffers, Fergusson, Robert, Léopold Sédar Senghor, Rita Dove, William Shakespeare, Laurie Lee, Carl Sandburg, John Frederick Nims, Langston Hughes, Yves Bonnefoy, Edgar Allan Poe, Conrad Aiken, John Greenleaf Whittier, Eugène Guillevic, Michael Longley, Günter Grass, F. R. Scott, Oliver St. John Gogarty, Muriel Rukeyser, Les A. Murray, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Pinsky, Odysseas Elytis, Pierre Reverdy, Hugo, Richard, Emily Brontë, Seamus Deane, Dannie Abse, Adrienne Rich, Laura Riding, Friedrich Hölderlin, Georg Trakl, John Davidson, Rabindranath Tagore, Pádraic H. Pearse, Clarke, Austin, Steve Griffiths, George Crabbe, Fred Wah, Robert Bly, Roy Fuller, Pierre de Ronsard, Gaius Valerius Catullus, John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, Derek Walcott, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Cecil Day-Lewis, Anne Stevenson, David Malouf, Thomas Gray, Emily Dickinson, Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Herrick, Oscar Williams, Isaac Watts, Charlotte Brontë, Vernon Phillips Watkins, Rafael Alberti, Jean Garrigue, Zbigniew Herbert, Young, Andrew, A. M. Klein, James Tate, William Wordsworth, Charlotte Mary Mew, Theocritus, Charles Churchill, Oscar Wilde, Rainer Maria Rilke, Anna Akhmatova, George Fetherling, Robert Bringhurst, Gascoyne, David, Robert Henryson, Lewis, Saunders, Pratt, E. J., Rosalía de Castro, Thomas Merton, Edward Robeson Taylor, John Shaw Neilson, Christopher Smart, Ai Weiwei, John Skelton, Kevin Crossley-Holland, U. A. Fanthorpe, Margaret Avison, John Peale Bishop, Al Purdy, Boileau, Vladimir Nabokov, Thompson, Denys, Giacomo Leopardi, Kenneth Rexroth, Adam Czerniawski, Kenneth Koch, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Robin Hyde, John Ciardi, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Andrew Marvell, David John Murray Wright, Thomas Chatterton, William Blake, T. S. Eliot, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Giovanni Pascoli, Guillaume Apollinaire, Stevie Smith, Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Paterson, John Gay, Emile Nelligan, Henrik Nordbrandt, Ausiàs March, Aaron J. Clarke, Jules Laforgue, Ezra Pound, John Hollander, Christina Georgina Rosetti, George William Russell, Theodore Roethke, Jaime Torres Bodet, Jibanananda Das, Gyula Illyés, Robert Frost, John Milton, Attilio Bertolucci, Federico García Lorca, Sir Walter Scott, Lars Gustafsson, Anne Sexton, John Berryman, W. D. Snodgrass, Heinz Piontek, Kenneth Patchen, Bill Bissett, William Peskett, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Sophie Hannah, António Machado
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Short stories
George Meredith, Clarice Lispector, Herman Melville, Alexandre Dumas, O. Henry, Virgilio Piñera, Robert Walser, Steve Frazee, Montague Rhodes James, Thomas, Gwyn, Henry James, Dylan Thomas, Guy de Maupassant, Kay Boyle, Louisa May Alcott, María Luisa Bombal, Colette, Manoj Das, Katherine Anne Porter, Robert Louis Stevenson, Washington Irving, Bruce Jay Friedman, Heinrich Böll, Wallace Stegner, Nadine Gordimer, Tadeusz Borowski, Seán O'Faoláin, Shūsaku Endō, Aldous Huxley, Joseph Hergesheimer, Vasiliĭ Makarovich Shukshin, Franz Kafka, D. H. Lawrence, Stephen Crane, Elizabeth Bowen, John Steinbeck, Voltaire, Willa Cather, Giovanni Verga, Juan Benet, Noël Coward, Wright Morris, T. Coraghessan Boyle, James Thurber, Francisco Coloane, Howard Mumford Jones, Basheer, Vaikom Muhammad, Mark Twain, Patrick O'Brian, Theodore Dreiser, Ambrose Bierce, Saʻādat Ḥasan Manṭo, Langston Hughes, Stefan Zweig, Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Allan Poe, Norman Duncan, Bernard Malamud, Bret Harte, Richard Yates, Olive Schreiner, J. G. Ballard, Philip K. Dick, Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский, John McGahern, Louis L'Amour, Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, H. G. Wells, Fitz-James O'Brien, Rabindranath Tagore, Anthony Trollope, E. L. Doctorow, Pádraic H. Pearse, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Isaac Babel, Александр Сергеевич Пушкин, Ousmane Sembène, Honoré de Balzac, Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Horacio Quiroga, Arturo Uslar Pietri, Haroldo Conti, Chester Himes, Лев Толстой, E. M. Forster, Yury Valentinovich Trifonov, Frederick Faust, Volodymyr Vynnychenko, Oscar Wilde, Isaak Babel, Иван Сергеевич Тургенев, Robert Graves, אברהם ב. יהושע, Kamala Das, Константи́н Гео́ргиевич Паусто́вский, Théophile Gautier, Luigi Pirandello, Josef Škvorecký, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Denis Diderot, Juan Carlos Onetti, William Faulkner, Irwin Shaw, Hjalmar Söderberg, Иван Алексеевич Бунин, Siegfried Lenz, Hermann Hesse, Munshi Premchand, Николай Васильевич Гоголь, John O'Hara, Thomas Wolfe, Clare Boylan, Padraic Colum, Torgny Lindgren, Kate Chopin, V. S. Pritchett, William Merritt Sale, Ruth Rendell, Donald Barthelme, F. Scott Fitzgerald, André Dubus, Bertolt Brecht, Ernest Hemingway, Edith Wharton, Anna Maria Ortese, Caroline Gordon, Antonia White, Антон Павлович Чехов, Mrs. Burton Harrison, Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Virginia Woolf, Reynolds Price, Jack London, Sholem Aleichem, Katherine Mansfield, H. E. Bates, Emilia Pardo Bazán, Prosper Mérimée, Frank Tuohy, Frank R. Stockton, Sarah Orne Jewett, Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov, William Somerset Maugham, Amanda Cross, Juan Ramón Jiménez, Fakir Mohan Senapati, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Peter Hillsman Taylor
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Rip Van Winkle / Washington Irving [Young Goodman Brown]( / Nathaniel Hawthorne [Fall of the House of Usher]( / Edgar Allan Poe The lightning-rod man / Herman Melville The diamond lens / Fitzjames O'Brien The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County / Mark Twain The outcasts of Poker Flat / Bret Harte [Damned Thing]( / Ambrose Bierce The turn of the screw / Henry James The Hiltons' holiday / Sarah Orne Jewett The gift of the Magi / O. Henry The moving finger / Edith Wharton The open boat / Stephen Crane Lou, the prophet / Willa Cather The men of Forty Mile / Jack London Babylon revisited / F. Scott Fitzgerald [A rose for Emily]( William Faulkner Big two-hearted river / Ernest Hemingway Flight / John Steinbeck
Summer will show
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Summer Will Show is a 1936 novel by Sylvia Townsend Warner. The novel follows a wealthy English noblewoman who falls in love with a female jewish revolutionary and becomes involved in the French Revolution of 1848.
Fahrenheit 451 and Related Readings
Ray Bradbury, Bernard Malamud, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Kurt Vonnegut, Walter Van Tilburg Clark, Sylvia Townsend Warner, William Stafford
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Contains: [Fahrenheit 451]( / novel by Ray Bradbury -- Afterword to the novel / Ray Bradbury -- The portable phonograph / short story by Walter Van Tilburg Clark -- "You have insulted me" / letter by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.-- Burning a book / poem by / William Stafford -- A summer's reading: What is the point of reading? / short story by Bernard Malamud -- The Paterson Public Library / memoir by Judith Ortiz Cofer -- The phoenix / short story by Sylvia Townsend Warner.
Stories from the New Yorker, 1950-1960
J. F. Powers, Robert M. Coates, Dorothy Parker, William Maxwell, J. D. Salinger, Niccolò Tucci, Nadine Gordimer, Elizabeth Hardwick, Angus Wilson, Tennessee Williams, John Updike, Mavis Gallant, Mary Lavin, Penelope Mortimer, Nancy Hale, Philip Roth, Eudora Welty, Julia Strachey, McKelway, St. Clair, Daniel Fuchs, Oliver La Farge, Elizabeth Bishop, Roald Dahl, Frank O'Connor, Maeve Brennan, Jean Stafford, Vladimir Nabokov, Elizabeth Spencer, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Saul Bellow, V. S. Pritchett, John Cheever, Richard Wilbur, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Peter Hillsman Taylor, Mary McCarthy
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Includes stories by Vladimir Nabokov, V.S. Pritchett, J.D. Salinger, John Updike, Philip Roth, Saul Bellow, Tennessee Williams, Mary McCarthy, Roald Dahl, Dorothy Parker, Nadine Gordimer, Eudora Welty, and John Cheever, among others.
Scenes of childhood
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An autobiography composed of a series of short reminiscences contributed to the New Yorker magazine by this English writer from the 1930s to the 1970s.