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| Author | Willa Cather |
|---|---|
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Poetry |
| Publisher | The Gorham Press |
Publication date | 1903 |
April Twilights is a 1903 collection of poems by Willa Cather. It was reedited by Cather in 1923 and 1933. [1] The poems were first published in many literary reviews, [2] often under pen names. [3]
Cather's influences for the poems were, among others, Anthony Hope's The Prisoner of Zenda , Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Oscar Wilde, Richard Wagner, Virgil's Georgics , William Shakespeare, François Villon, Pierre-Jean de Béranger, John Keats's Endymion and Hyperion , Alphonse Daudet's Kings in Exile , Heinrich Heine's The Gods in Exile and The North Sea , and Edward Coley Burne-Jones. [4]
Cather's favourite poems were Grandmither, Mills of Montmartre and The Hawthorn Tree. [5]
At the time of publication, the collection received mixed reviews; the Pittsburgh Gazette , the New York Times Saturday Review , Academy and Literature , the Criterion , the Bookman , the Chicago Tribune , and the Poet Lore praised it; The Dial thought it was bland. [6] Cather decided to buy the remaining copies and burn them. [5]
Mark Twain praised her poem The Palatine. [7]
It has been noted that Cather broaches 'the enduring aura of a homosexual myth' as she alludes to Antinous several times in her poems. [8]
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April Twilights public domain audiobook at LibriVox