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Record Nr.

UNINA9910806131703321

Autore

Lee Laurie

Titolo

Selected poems / / Laurie Lee ; designed by Felicity Price-Smith

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, [England] : , : Andrews UK Limited, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-910065-27-7

1-910065-26-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (81 p.)

Disciplina

808.1

Soggetti

Poetry

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Front Matter; Title Page; Publisher Information; Dedication; Note; The Poems; Invasion Summer; A Moment of War; Words Asleep; Music in a Spanish Town; Juniper; At Night; Landscape; The Armoured Valley; Larch Tree; The Three Winds; Interval; Equinox; Milkmaid; Village of Winter Carols; Guadalquivir; The Wild Trees; Christmas Landscape; Poem for Easter; April Rise; First Love; The Long War; Moss-Rose; Bird; Black Edge; Thistle; My Many-Coated Man; Summer Rain; Field of Autumn; Day of these Days; Boy in Ice; The Edge of Day; Twelfth Night; The Easter Green; Sunken Evening

The Pollard Beech Song by the Sea; Long Summer; Scot in the Desert; To Matthew Smith; Cock-Pheasant; Town Owl; Home From Abroad; Apples; The Abandoned Shade; Bombay Arrival; On Beacon Hill; Shot Fox; Girl Under Fig-Tree; Night Speech; Stork in Jerez; Fish and Water; Seafront

Sommario/riassunto

Lee's first love was always poetry, though he was only moderately successful as a poet. Lee's first poem appeared in The Sunday Referee in 1934. Another poem was published in Cyril Connolly's Horizon magazine in 1940 and his first volume of poems, The Sun My Monument, was launched in 1944. This was followed by The Bloom of Candles (1947) and My Many-coated Man (1955). Several poems written in the early 1940's reflect the atmosphere of the war, but also capture the beauty of the English countr...