The Complete Poems (The ^AOxford Poets) - Softcover

Douglas, Keith

Softcover

ISBN 10: 019288087X ISBN 13: 9780192880871

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1998

Synopsis

This is a new edition of the complete poems of Keith Douglas, who is largely recognized as the most brilliant British poet of the Second World War. He was killed in June of 1944 in Normandy at the age of only twenty-four, yet had already achieved a considerable body of work. Douglas began writing poetry while at school at Christ's Hospital and later at Oxford University, and continued his poetry while serving in the army in England and the Middle East. Desmond Graham, Douglas's biographer, and a poet in his own right, has revised his original edition of the poems, bringing the poignant words and powerful images of this distinguished poet once again to life.

About this title

About the Author:

About the Editor:
Desmond Graham is Keith Douglas's biographer and a poet himself.

Review:

'With this book we are in the presence of greatness. There is in his work a spaciousness, clarity and depth along with a wide variety of moods, themes, forms and rhythms. He can handle the delicate lyric as satisfyingly and as powerfully as a luminous vers libre. An important book of
undoubted mastery.'
The Daily Telegraph. Oct '94

`a body of work which has few rivals ... His poems are tense, sometimes breathless examinations of life at the very edge ... A powerful collection.'
Yorkshire Post

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 019288087X
• ISBN 13: 9780192880871
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 208
• Editor: Graham Desmond