Name: By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept
Rating: 3.4 (10 reviews)
ISBN: 9780007375882

Elizabeth Smart

Elizabeth Smart’s passionate fictional account of her intense love-affair with the poet George Barker, described by Angela Carter as ‘Like MADAME BOVARY blasted by lightning ... A masterpiece’.

By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept

i would’ve wept at the grand central too if i had to love a man

Saffy

elizabeth smart you are smart and amazing, the writing is one of the most beautiful i've ever read in my entire life. every word is meticulously placed to build a masterpiece of a paragraph. she feels love on a whole different level of depth, where you as the reader yourself are creeped throughout the body with her pain, wrath and loneliness of her love. though i admit, i do not tolerate some of her actions. no man ever deserves that kind of devotion.

ayoni

Originally published in 1945, this book of poetic prose encapsulates former journalist Elizabeth Smart’s relationship with poet George Barker. Instantly, upon picking up a book of his poetry while browsing through a London bookshop, Smart fell in love with the poet. They would soon begin an indulgent love affair during which she gave birth to four of his children. He, however, remained legally married to his wife. This tale of passionate but fanatical love is a modern reflection of the Romantic poets. Accompanied in this edition by The Assumption of the Rogues and Rascals, a short novel that may be read as its sequel, By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept has been hailed by critics worldwide as a work of sheer genius. Foreword by Brigid Brophy

By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept

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