Collected Poems

Sidney Keyes

ISBN 10: 185754580X / ISBN 13: 9781857545807

Published by Carcanet Press Ltd, GB, 2002

About this Item

Including a wide variety of poems and dramatic monologues, this collection of Sidney Keyes s work demonstrates the poet s mastery of literature. Keyes was considered by some to be a prodigy, writing strikingly even before his undergraduate years at Oxford. His work illustrates his fusion of Romanticism and Continental style derived from his interest in such artists as Rilke, Wordsworth, Yeats, Schiller, and Klee. His unique, macabre, pastoral landscapes wildly separate him from his contemporaries.".

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Collected Poems
• Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd, GB
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 185754580X
• ISBN 13: 9781857545807
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 300 grams

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Synopsis

Including a wide variety of poems and dramatic monologues, this collection of Sidney Keyes’s work demonstrates the poet’s mastery of literature. Keyes was considered by some to be a prodigy, writing strikingly even before his undergraduate years at Oxford. His work illustrates his fusion of Romanticism and Continental style derived from his interest in such artists as Rilke, Wordsworth, Yeats, Schiller, and Klee. His unique, macabre, pastoral landscapes wildly separate him from his contemporaries.

About the Author

Sidney Keyes (1922–1943) is considered one of the outstanding poets of World War II. After two weeks of active service, he died in combat in Tunisia, at the age of 20.