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03417aam a2200361 i 4500 001 8E801ED2F31211EEA2A0228A4CECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240405010125 008 151005s2015 enka b 001 0beng d 010 $a 2015934239 020 $a 0198739826 (hbk.) 020 $a 9780198739821 (hbk.) 035 $a (OCoLC)918560179 040 $a NLE $b eng $c NLE $d OCLCO $d YDXCP $d OKUBL $d OCLCF $d LTSCA $d OCLCO $d ZCU $d DLC $d TLC $e rda $d SILO 042 $a lccopycat 050 00 $a PR6015.E778 $b Z76 2015 082 04 $a 821.914 $b B $2 23 100 1 $a McCormack, W. J., $e author. $0 (DLC)n 80093938 245 10 $a Northman : $b John Hewitt (1907-87) : an Irish writer, his world, and his times / $c W.J. McCormack. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a Oxford : $b Oxford University Press, $c 2015. 300 $a xx, 294 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-280) and indexes. 520 8 $a This, the first ever biography of John Hewitt, is based on archival material, both personal and literary. In many ways it is also a biography of his wife, Roberta (nee Black), whose manuscript journal is also in the public domain. To establish Hewitt's late arrival as a poet, the book opens with a chapter recounting his negotiations with a London publisher over a long period and the eventual appearance of No Rebel Word (1949). Successive chapters trace his education, courtship, literary apprenticeship, first employment as a junior gallery curator in Belfast, the political conflicts of the 1930s and then the War Years, his rejection for the post of director in Belfast's Civic Museum and Gallery, and his utopian commitment to regionalism. Appointment to the Herbert Gallery in Coventry in 1956 brought recognition and confidence. His leanings towards socialist realism came to accommodate abstract art, and he defended the sculptor Barbara Hepworth against the penny-pinching ratepayers. Throughout this two-part career, Hewitt maintained his output as poet, culminating in the Collected Poems (1968).0His Irish political commitments never wavered, though he became cautious about forms of nationalism which proclaimed themselves left-wing. Roberta Hewitt's work for the Coventry Labour Party provided an outlet for her energies and her domestic frustrations. Throughout these forty years, the poetry is kept constantly in view, sometime by reference to individual pieces and their origins, and some by means of longer 'breaks for text' where more detailed criticism is practised. In 1972, the Hewitts returned to Belfast whenthe Troubles reached an ugly peak. Committed to anti-sectarianism, Hewitt withheld support from all parties, though he took an interest in trade union activity. Publishing (perhaps too much) poetry in his last decade-and-a-half, he died very much in harness. 600 10 $a Hewitt, John Harold, $d 1907-1987 $0 (DLC)n 50047981 600 17 $a Hewitt, John Harold, $d 1907-1987. $2 fast $0 (local)tlcaut25762542066847444 $0 (local)tlcaut25762542066847444 648 7 $a 1900 - 1999 $2 fast 650 0 $a Poets, Irish $y 20th century $v Biography. $0 (DLC)sh2008109449 650 7 $a Poets, Irish. $2 fast $0 (local)tlcaut25762542131888132 $0 (local)tlcaut25762542131888132 655 7 $a Biography. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423686 941 $a 1 952 $l DFPC353 $d 20240430021432.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=8E801ED2F31211EEA2A0228A4CECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search