The Last of the Light by Peter Davidson
A meditation on twilight in Western thought, painting and literature, which combines memoir, literature and art history.
'The Last of the Light is both a celebration of and inquiry into the significance of temperature and skies.. Davidson takes us to places that are vast and lovely as well as somehow underlit and shadowy, where a kind of emptiness and uncertainty prevails.' - Kirsty Gunn, The Guardian; 'These days, you'd expect an author just to google "twilight" and pile up everything he finds. Not Davidson; this is a deep and personal meditation ... Davidson ranges right across the disciplines in his search for allusions, citing Ruskin, Rilke, Chopin, Kant and Vanbrugh along the way. The result is revealing, poetic and (unavoidably) illuminating. As a bonus, the book is beautifully and copiously illustrated.' - The Independent; 'What a treasure trove this book is ... Davidson's beautiful and scholarly chapters are an exploration of a passion for twilight ... beautiful and deeply nostalgic ... Davidson has given twilight the shrine it deserves.' - Adam Nicolson, Country Life; 'What an astonishing book this is: a cartography of dusk, an illumination of twilight as it has found its ways into the art, literature, dreams, moods and metaphors of Europe and beyond. Beautiful and subtle in its tracings, it combines memoir, memory, place-writing and cultural history by degrees so fine as to be imperceptible.' - Robert Macfarlane, author of Landmarks
Peter Davidson is Fellow of Campion Hall, University of Oxford. He has taught at the universities of Aberdeen, Leiden and Warwick. He is the author of a book of essays about northern culture, The Idea of North (Reaktion, 2005), Distance and Memory (2013), a collection of verse, The Palace of Oblivion (2008) and The Last of the Light: About Twilight (Reaktion, 2015).
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| ISBN 13 | 9781780238272 |
| ISBN 10 | 1780238274 |
| Title | The Last of the Light |
| Author | Peter Davidson |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Reaktion Books |
| Year published | 2017-09-01 |
| Number of pages | 280 |
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