‘A Few Words … To Ponder … In My Heart’
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Lawrence Harvey (1970) first identified four lines of verse from the “Addenda” #8 of Watt as a borrowing from a lyric by James Thomson (1700–1748), the Scots poet famed for The Seasons (1726–1730), a long poem widely-read in the century thereafter. This paper considers the importance of Thomson’s lyric in Beckett’s life and its role in his writings (published and unpublished, public and private) over many years.
Author: David Pascoe
Institution: Utrecht University
Language: English
Topic: Samuel Beckett and Modernism
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4410638508