Collected Poems - Laurie Lee

Collected Poems

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
208 Seiten
2024
Penguin Classics (Verlag)
978-0-241-62518-7 (ISBN)
11,20 inkl. MwSt
A landmark collection of poems from the author of Cider with Rosie, as evocative and poignant as his prose

'If ever I saw blessing in the air
I see it now in this still early day...'

Laurie Lee is beloved for his writing on a lost rural world. His evocative poetry springs from his deep connection with nature, as he tracks the seasons changing and the years turning over. Yet Lee's poems also captured war, human relationships and distant places, informed by his own experiences of lives uprooted by change and conflict. Written during the course of his lifetime, the verses brought together in Collected Poems range over Lee playing his fiddle in a Spanish town; ecstatic in springtime of his beloved Slad valley; or digging for faith in the depths of winter.

Gathered in one volume for the first time, and including a generous selection of previously unseen verses from Lee's archives, these timeless, poignant poems show him expressing the essence of life, love and loss.

Laurie Lee has written some of the best-loved travel books in the English language. Born in Stroud, Gloucestershire, in 1914, he was educated at Slad village school and Stroud Central School. At the age of nineteen he walked to London and then travelled on foot through Spain, where he was trapped by the outbreak of the Civil War. He later returned by crossing the Pyrenees, as he recounted in A Moment of War. Laurie Lee published four collections of poems: The Sun My Monument (1944), The Bloom of Candles (1947), My Many-Coated Man (1955) and Pocket Poets (1960). His other works include The Voyage of Magellan (1948), The Firstborn (1964), I Can't Stay Long (1975), and Two Women (1983). He also wrote three bestselling volumes of autobiography: Cider with Rosie (1959), which has sold over six million copies worldwide, As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning (1969) and A Moment of War (1991).

Erscheint lt. Verlag 3.10.2024
Reihe/Serie Penguin Modern Classics
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 129 x 198 mm
Gewicht 200 g
Themenwelt Literatur Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Literatur Lyrik / Dramatik Lyrik / Gedichte
Sachbuch/Ratgeber Natur / Technik Natur / Ökologie
ISBN-10 0-241-62518-1 / 0241625181
ISBN-13 978-0-241-62518-7 / 9780241625187
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