Full Description
Known above all for his translations of Proust, Charles Scott Moncrieff also had his own poetry, short stories and war serials regularly published in literary periodicals. Here for the first time is a collection of these, put together with an introduction by Jean Findlay, author Chasing Lost Time - the life of CK Scott Moncrieff, Soldier, Spy and Translator (Chatto and Windus 2014, Vintage 2015, Farrar Straus and Giroux 2015)
Contents
Introduction 1
Short Stories 5
Evensonge and Morwesong 7
Mortmain 11
Cousin Fanny and Cousin Annie 16
The Victorians 39
Ant 56
Two Tales 66
The Mouse in the Dovecot 78
War Serials 89
Early Poems 125
War Poems 151
Love and Dedicatory Poems 171
Satirical Verse 189
