C H Sisson: 2 books

This book is the most comprehensive collection of essays, criticisms, and analyses of the author C. H. Sisson, dubbed as “one of the great translators of our time” by the Times Literary Supplement. This work provides an insightful look into C. H. Sisson’s work and that of his peers, and provides...

When C.H. Sisson was 20, he gave up writing poems. He began once more in his 30s under the stress of war-time, stationed in India. Verse came intermittently, exiguously; the bulk of his early writing in translation, prose essays, and fiction. One of the few direct English heirs of the great Modernists,...