A sweeping posthumous collection of Roden Noel’s poetry, pairing intimate nature reveries with bold social and political lyricism.This edition gathers Beatrice and Other Poems, The Red Flag and Other Poems, and substantial selections from Noel’s long career, including My Sea and Other Poems, Livingstone in Africa, and dramatic works like The House of Ravensburg. It also includes later, unpublished pieces and editorial material such as notes, letters, and extracts from correspondence that illuminate the poet’s life and work. The result is a wide-ranging panorama of Noel’s voice—from contemplative nature verse to impassioned protest, from lyric love to epic visions of history.
What you’ll experience:
- A diverse body of verse spanning nature, faith, doubt, and human destiny.
- Unpublished poems alongside beloved selections, offering new angles on familiar themes.
- Editorial context, notes, and letters that deepen understanding of the poems’ origins and ideas.
- A window into 19th‑century Romantic and political poetry, with dramatic prose and epic settings.
Ideal for readers of classical and Victorian poetry, as well as fans of thoughtful, richly textured verse that blends beauty with social conscience.